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As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/obadiah/1.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/obadiah/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/obadiah/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/obadiah/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD <i>is</i> near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/obadiah/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“For the day of the LORD upon all the nations <i>is</i> near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/obadiah/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“For the day of the LORD is near for all the nations. Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/obadiah/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/obadiah/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/obadiah/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“For the day of Yahweh draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/obadiah/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“For the [judgment] day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you [in retribution]; Your [evil] dealings will return on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/obadiah/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD is near, against all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/obadiah/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For the Day of the LORD is near, against all the nations. As you have done, so it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/obadiah/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/obadiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The day is coming when I, the LORD, will judge the nations. And, Edom, you will pay in full for what you have done. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/obadiah/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/obadiah/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"The day of the LORD is near for all nations. Edom, you will be treated as you have treated others. You will get back what you have given.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/obadiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"The day is near when I, the LORD, will judge all nations. Edom, what you have done will be done to you. You will get back what you have given. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/obadiah/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Indeed, the Day of the LORD approaches all nations. As you have done it will be done to you— your deeds will return to haunt you! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/obadiah/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/obadiah/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"For the day of the LORD is approaching for all the nations! Just as you have done, so it will be done to you. You will get exactly what your deeds deserve. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/obadiah/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD is near all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/obadiah/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done to thee: thy reward shall return upon thy own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/obadiah/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/obadiah/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />For near [is] the Day of YHWH, on all the nations, "" As you have done, it is done to you, "" Your deed turns back on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/obadiah/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> For near is the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/obadiah/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou didst, it shall be done to thee: thy recompense shall turn back upon thy head.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/obadiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations: as thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own head. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/obadiah/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For the day of the Lord is near, over all nations. Just as you have done, so will it be done to you. He will turn back your retribution on your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/obadiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Near is the day of the LORD against all the nations! As you have done, so will it be done to you, your conduct will come back upon your own head; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/obadiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/obadiah/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD is near upon all nations; as you have done, it shall be done to you; your rewards shall return upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/obadiah/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because the day of LORD JEHOVAH is near on all the nations, as what you have done, thus it shall be done to you, and your vengeance shall return on your head<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/obadiah/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations; As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/obadiah/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as thou have done, so shall it be <i>done</i> to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on thine <i>own</i> head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/obadiah/1-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/piuamfDBCtM?start=162" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/obadiah/1.htm">The Deliverance of Israel</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">15</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm- (N-msc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">the Day</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">of the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/7138.htm" title="7138: qā·rō·wḇ (Adj-ms) -- Near. Or qarob; from qarab; near.">is near</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm" title="1471: hag·gō·w·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Rarely goy; apparently from the same root as gevah; a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts.">the nations.</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ka·’ă·šer (Prep-k:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">As</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śî·ṯā (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">you have done,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: yê·‘ā·śeh (V-Nifal-Imperf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">it will be done</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- ">to you;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1576.htm" title="1576: gə·mul·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- A dealing, recompense, benefit. From gamal; treatment, i.e. An act; by implication, service or requital.">your recompense</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: yā·šūḇ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">will return</a> <a href="/hebrew/7218.htm" title="7218: bə·rō·še·ḵā (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 2ms) -- Head. From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head, whether literal or figurative.">upon your own head.</a> </span><span class="reftext">16</span>For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/3-7.htm">Joel 3:7</a></span><br />Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/3-14.htm">Joel 3:14</a></span><br />Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm">Jeremiah 25:15-17</a></span><br />This is what 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 from it. / And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.” / So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-6.htm">Isaiah 13:6</a></span><br />Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/34-8.htm">Isaiah 34:8</a></span><br />For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/30-3.htm">Ezekiel 30:3</a></span><br />For 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-14.htm">Zephaniah 1:14-15</a></span><br />The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter. / That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1</a></span><br />“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm">Amos 5:18-20</a></span><br />Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light. / It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake. / Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/2-12.htm">Isaiah 2:12</a></span><br />For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-9.htm">Isaiah 13:9</a></span><br />Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/7-19.htm">Ezekiel 7:19</a></span><br />They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-2.htm">Matthew 7:2</a></span><br />For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/25-31.htm">Matthew 25:31-46</a></span><br />When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne. / All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. / He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/6-38.htm">Luke 6:38</a></span><br />Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For the day of the LORD is near on all the heathen: as you have done, it shall be done to you: your reward shall return on your own head.</p><p class="hdg">the day.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/110-5.htm">Psalm 110:5,6</a></b></br> The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm">Jeremiah 9:25,26</a></b></br> Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all <i>them which are</i> circumcised with the uncircumcised; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm">Jeremiah 25:15-29</a></b></br> For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it… </p><p class="hdg">as.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/1-7.htm">Judges 1:7</a></b></br> And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered <i>their meat</i> under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/137-8.htm">Psalm 137:8</a></b></br> O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy <i>shall he be</i>, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/35-15.htm">Ezekiel 35:15</a></b></br> As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, <i>even</i> all of it: and they shall know that I <i>am</i> the LORD.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/amos/3-10.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/amos/8-5.htm">Dealing</a> <a href="/psalms/116-12.htm">Dealings</a> <a href="/joel/3-7.htm">Deed</a> <a href="/amos/8-7.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-2.htm">Draws</a> <a href="/amos/9-1.htm">Head</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-2.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-2.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/joel/3-11.htm">Quickly</a> <a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Reward</a> <a href="/amos/9-14.htm">Turn</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jonah/3-8.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Dealing</a> <a href="/john/4-9.htm">Dealings</a> <a href="/matthew/19-16.htm">Deed</a> <a href="/jonah/3-10.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/luke/21-28.htm">Draws</a> <a href="/jonah/2-5.htm">Head</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-16.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-16.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/micah/2-7.htm">Quickly</a> <a href="/micah/3-11.htm">Reward</a> <a href="/jonah/1-13.htm">Turn</a><div class="vheading2">Obadiah 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/obadiah/1-1.htm">The destruction of Edom,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/obadiah/1-3.htm">for their pride,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/obadiah/1-10.htm">and for their wrong unto Jacob.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/obadiah/1-17.htm">The salvation and victory of Jacob.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/obadiah/1.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/obadiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/obadiah/1.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations.</b><br>The "Day of the LORD" is a recurring theme in the prophetic books, signifying a time of divine intervention, judgment, and salvation. In Obadiah, this day is imminent, not just for Edom, but for all nations. Historically, the Edomites were descendants of Esau and had a longstanding enmity with Israel, the descendants of Jacob. The phrase indicates a universal scope of God's judgment, extending beyond Israel's immediate neighbors to encompass all nations. This concept is echoed in other prophetic books such as <a href="/joel/2.htm">Joel 2:1</a> and <a href="/zephaniah/1-14.htm">Zephaniah 1:14</a>, where the Day of the LORD is portrayed as a time of reckoning. The nearness of this day suggests urgency and the certainty of God's plans. In a broader theological context, it foreshadows the final judgment described in the New Testament, particularly in Revelation.<p><b>As you have done, it will be done to you;</b><br>This phrase underscores the principle of divine justice and retribution, often summarized as "you reap what you sow." In the context of Obadiah, Edom's actions against Israel—such as violence, betrayal, and gloating over their misfortunes—are highlighted. This principle is consistent with other biblical teachings, such as in <a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7</a>, where Paul writes about sowing and reaping. The idea of reciprocal justice is also seen in the teachings of Jesus, particularly in the Sermon on the Mount (<a href="/matthew/7-2.htm">Matthew 7:2</a>), where the measure one uses will be measured back to them. This reflects the moral order established by God, where actions have consequences.<p><b>your recompense will return upon your own head.</b><br>The imagery of recompense returning upon one's own head is vivid and personal, indicating that the consequences of one's actions are inescapable and directly affect the individual. In the historical context, Edom's betrayal and hostility towards Israel during times of distress are seen as actions that will bring about their downfall. This phrase is a reminder of the certainty of divine justice, where God ensures that justice is served. Theologically, it points to the ultimate accountability before God, where every nation and individual will face the consequences of their actions. This concept is mirrored in <a href="/psalms/7-16.htm">Psalm 7:16</a>, where the wicked's mischief returns upon their own head, reinforcing the inevitability of divine justice.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/o/obadiah.htm">Obadiah</a></b><br>The prophet who authored the book, delivering a message of judgment against Edom and a broader warning to all nations.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/e/edom.htm">Edom</a></b><br>A nation descended from Esau, Jacob's brother, often in conflict with Israel. Edom's actions against Israel are a central focus of Obadiah's prophecy.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_day_of_the_lord.htm">The Day of the LORD</a></b><br>A significant biblical theme referring to a time of divine judgment and intervention in human affairs, often associated with both immediate and eschatological events.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/n/nations.htm">Nations</a></b><br>Refers to all peoples and countries, emphasizing the universal scope of God's judgment.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/r/recompense.htm">Recompense</a></b><br>The concept of divine justice where actions are repaid in kind, reflecting the biblical principle of sowing and reaping.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_certainty_of_divine_justice.htm">The Certainty of Divine Justice</a></b><br>God's justice is inevitable and impartial. The "Day of the LORD" serves as a reminder that God will hold all nations accountable for their actions.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_principle_of_recompense.htm">The Principle of Recompense</a></b><br>Our actions have consequences. As believers, we are called to live righteously, knowing that what we do will return to us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/universal_scope_of_judgment.htm">Universal Scope of Judgment</a></b><br>God's judgment is not limited to one nation or people but extends to all. This calls for a global perspective in our understanding of God's justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The nearness of the "Day of the LORD" is a call to repentance and humility before God, recognizing our need for His mercy and grace.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_sovereignty.htm">Hope in God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>While the message of judgment is sobering, it also affirms God's control over history and His ultimate plan for justice and restoration.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_obadiah_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Obadiah 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_do_some_texts_suggest_mercy,_not_judgment.htm">If Obadiah 1:15 predicts universal judgment, why do some other biblical texts suggest mercy and restoration for nations? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_prompted_god's_judgment_on_edom.htm">What prompted God's judgment on Edom?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/obadiah's_prophecy_on_edom's_betrayal.htm">What is Obadiah's prophecy against Edom's betrayal of Israel?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_edom's_fate_in_the_bible.htm">What fate awaits Edom according to biblical prophecies?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/obadiah/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 15, 16.</span> - § 3. The warning given in the first section (vers, 1-9) is supplemented by the announcement <span class="accented">that in the day of the Lord, Edom and all the enemies of Israel shall be remembered, and shall suffer just retribution, meeting with the fate which they had inflicted on others.</span> <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 15.</span> - The day of the Lord. This is not primarily the final day of judgment, but the time when "Jehovah reveals his majesty and omnipotence in a glorious manner, to overthrow all ungodly powers, and to complete his kingdom" (Keil). It is announced by <a href="/joel/1-15.htm">Joel 1:15</a>; <a href="/joel/2-1.htm">Joel 2:1, 31</a>; <a href="/zephaniah/1-14.htm">Zephaniah 1:14</a>; but the notion of a judgment to fall on Gentile nations, and to issue in the establishment of the kingdom of God, was familiar long before. Balaam had seen it in dim vision (<a href="/numbers/24-17.htm">Numbers 24:17-24</a>); Hannah had anticipated the destruction that would accompany it (<a href="/1_samuel/2-9.htm">1 Samuel 2:9, 10</a>); so had David (<a href="/2_samuel/23-5.htm">2 Samuel 23:5-7</a>) in his last words; it is clearly predicted in the Psalms (see <a href="/psalms/2.htm">Psalm 2</a> and 110.) (Knabenbauer). Is near. Because every such judgment upon individual nations is typical of the great day and preparative of it. As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee (comp. <a href="/judges/1-7.htm">Judges 1:7</a>; <a href="/psalms/137-8.htm">Psalm 137:8</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/50-15.htm">Jeremiah 50:15</a>). This law of retribution was the ideal of heathen justice, according to the Rhadamanthian rule, "If a man should suffer what he hath done, then there would be strict justice" (Aristotle, 'Eth. Nic.' 5:5. 3). Thy reward (<a href="/joel/3-7.htm">Joel 3:7</a> [4:7, Hebrew]; better, <span class="accented">that which thou hast performed</span> - thy work or dealing, <span class="cmt_word">Upon thine own head.</span> Like a stone cast towards heaven (comp. <a href="/psalms/7-16.htm">Psalm 7:16</a>; <a href="/esther/9.htm">Esther 9</a>. '25). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/obadiah/1-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">For</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּֽי־</span> <span class="translit">(kî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Day</span><br /><span class="heb">יוֹם־</span> <span class="translit">(yō·wm-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is near</span><br /><span class="heb">קָר֥וֹב</span> <span class="translit">(qā·rō·wḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7138.htm">Strong's 7138: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the nations.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַגּוֹיִ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(hag·gō·w·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm">Strong's 1471: </a> </span><span class="str2">A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts</span><br /><br /><span class="word">As</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר</span> <span class="translit">(ka·’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you have done,</span><br /><span class="heb">עָשִׂ֙יתָ֙</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·śî·ṯā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">it will be done</span><br /><span class="heb">יֵעָ֣שֶׂה</span> <span class="translit">(yê·‘ā·śeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to you;</span><br /><span class="heb">לָּ֔ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(lāḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">your recompense</span><br /><span class="heb">גְּמֻלְךָ֖</span> <span class="translit">(gə·mul·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1576.htm">Strong's 1576: </a> </span><span class="str2">Treatment, an act, service, requital</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will return</span><br /><span class="heb">יָשׁ֥וּב</span> <span class="translit">(yā·šūḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">upon your own head.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·rō·še·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7218.htm">Strong's 7218: </a> </span><span class="str2">The head</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/obadiah/1-15.htm">OT Prophets: Obadiah 1:15 For the day of Yahweh is near (Obad. 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