Obadiah 1:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.

Job 24:1

“Why are times not kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?

Psalm 137:8

O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: I am about to pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 49:12

For thus says the Lord: If those who do not deserve to drink the cup still have to drink it, shall you be the one to go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished; you must drink it.

Jeremiah 50:29

Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her—for she has arrogantly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:56

for a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken, for the Lord is a God of recompense; he will repay in full.

Ezekiel 30:3

For a day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Ezekiel 35:11

therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among you when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35:15

As 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 shall know that I am the Lord.

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—

Joel 2:11

The Lord utters his voice at the head of his army; how vast is his host! Numberless are those who obey his command. Truly the day of the Lord is great, terrible indeed—who can endure it?

Amos 5:18

Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness, not light,

Amos 5:20

Is not the day of the Lord darkness, not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

Micah 5:15

And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Matthew 7:2

For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.