World English Bible
Obadiah 1:15
“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.”
Verse in context — Obadiah 1
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.
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.
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.
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.
But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
About Obadiah
Prophecy of Edom’s downfall and Israel’s restoration.
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