Obadiah 1:15 (DBY)

Passage

For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy recompence shall return upon thine own head.

Nearby Context

Obadiah 1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither shouldest thou have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity;

Obadiah 1:14 and thou shouldest not have stood on the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape, nor have delivered up those remaining of him in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1:15 For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy recompence shall return upon thine own head.

Obadiah 1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

Obadiah 1:17 But upon mount Zion shall there be deliverance, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "jehovah", "near", "upon", "nations", "thou", "hast", "done", and "shall". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "jehovah" and "near", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 14's "and thou shouldest not have stood on..." into verse 16's "For as ye have drunk upon my...", so "jehovah" and "near" belong inside that flow. In Obadiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "jehovah" and "near" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.