15For 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.


In Context

12 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

13 Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

14 Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

15 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.

16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

Obadiah 1:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:15For 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:15"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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:15For 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:15For 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy recompence shall return upon thine own head.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:15For 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15For 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15For 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:15For 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.