Obadiah 1:15

Obadiah 1:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
• New International Version (NIV)“The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“The day is near when I, the Lord, will judge all godless nations! As you have done to Israel, so it will be done to you. All your evil deeds will fall back on your own heads.

Context of Obadiah 1:15

13Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity. 14Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress. For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head. 16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been. 17But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

Obadiah 1:15 word by word

כִּֽי־קָר֥וֹב יוֹם־יְהוָ֖ה עַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ יֵעָ֣שֶׂה לָּ֔ךְ גְּמֻלְךָ֖ יָשׁ֥וּב בְּרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• nearקָרֹבqârôb qârôb · nearH7138
• upon all the heathenגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• as thou hast doneעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• unto thee: thy rewardגְּמוּלgemûl · recompenseH1576
• shall returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• upon thine own headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218

Cross-references for Obadiah 1:15

• Psalms 110:5The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
• Jeremiah 9:25"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh—
• Jeremiah 25:15Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
• Jeremiah 49:12For thus says the Lord: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
• Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.
• Ezekiel 30:3For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
• Joel 3:11Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
• Micah 5:15And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
• Zechariah 14:14Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.
• Judges 1:7And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
• Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
• Joel 3:7Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.
• Habakkuk 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
• Matthew 7:2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
• James 2:13For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Commentaries on Obadiah 1:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15The day of the Lord is near - God will not associate thee with him in the judgments which he inflicts. Thou also art guilty and shalt have thy punishment in due course with the other sinful nations.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15For the day of the Lord is near upon all the pagan - The prophet once more enforces his warning by preaching judgment to come. “The day of the Lord” was already known Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1, Joel 2:31, as a day of judgment upon “all nations,” in which God would “judge all the pagan,” especially for their outrages against His people. Edom might hope to escape, were it alone threatened. The prophet announces one great law of God‘s retribution, one rule of His…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15The Day of the LORD is near: The phrase the day of the Lord sometimes referred to a specific event, like the destruction of Edom or Joel’s locust plague (Joel 1:15). In its final form, it represents God's final judgment on all godless nations. As you have done: Those who face judgment will find their punishment reflects their evil actions.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. For--resumptive in connection with Ob 10, wherein Edom was threatened with cutting off for ever. the day of the Lord--the day in which He will manifest Himself as the Righteous Punisher of the ungodly peoples (Joe 3:14). The "all" shows that the fulfilment is not exhausted in the punishment inflicted on the surrounding nations by the instrumentality of Nebuchadnezzar; but, as in Joe 3:14, and Zec 12:3, that the last judgment to come on the nations…Read the comment

Topics related to Obadiah 1:15

• Day
• Edomites

In the dictionaries

• Joel (2)
• Negeb
• Obadiah, Book of

Commentaries on Obadiah 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings