but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Obadiah 1:15 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
*Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
Daughter of Bavel, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Thus says the LORD against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Yisra'el to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Yehudah from among them.
For thus says the LORD: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.
Call together the archers against Bavel, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Yisra'el.
for the destroyer is come on her, even on Bavel, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the LORD is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.
As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Yisra'el, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Se`ir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Blow the shofar in Tziyon, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD comes, for it is close at hand:
The LORD thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of the LORD is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
*Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Won't the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn't listen.*
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Adoni-Bezek said, *Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me.* They brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died there.