Obadiah 1:15 - Revised Version 1885

¹⁵ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your dealings will return upon your own head. [Isa. 2:10-22; Zeph. 3:8-20; Zech. 12:1-14; Rev. 19:11-21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The day of the LORD is near against all the nations. As you have done, so it will be done to you; your actions will make you suffer!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ 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.

Obadiah 1:15 Cross References

Esther 9:25

but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and that he and his sons should he hanged on the gallows.

Job 24:1

Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they which know him see his days?

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 49:12

For thus saith the LORD: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.

Jeremiah 50:29

Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; camp against her round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:56

for the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces: for the LORD is a God of recompences, he shall surely requite.

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the heathen.

Ezekiel 35:11

therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD I will do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast shewed out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.

Ezekiel 35:15

As thou didst rejoice over 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 Edom, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come,

Joel 2:1

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Joel 2:11

And the LORD uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

Amos 5:18

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD? it is darkness, and not light.

Amos 5:20

Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Micah 5:15

And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the nations which hearkened not.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

Matthew 7:2

For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.

James 2:13

For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.

Judges 1:7

And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.