Obadiah 1:15

"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."

Key Reflection

This verse warns that judgment day is approaching for all nations, and just as they have treated others, so too will their actions come back to them. It emphasizes the principle of retribution, where each nation's deeds will be judged and returned in kind on the day of the LORD.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the pagan -The prophet once more enforces his warning by preaching judgment to come. “The day of the Lord” was already knownJoel 1:15;Joel 2:1,Joel 2:31, as a day of judgment upon “all nations,” in which God would “judge all the pagan,” especially for their outrages against His people. Edom might hope to escape, were it alone threatened. The prophet announces one great law of God’s retribution, one rule of His righteous judgment. “As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee.” Pagan justice owned this to be just, and placed it in the mouth of their ideal of justice.

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