Obadiah 1:15 (DRB)

Passage

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.

Nearby Context

Obadiah 1:13 Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.

Obadiah 1:14 Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of tribulation.

Obadiah 1:15 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.

Obadiah 1:16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all nations shall drink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be as though they were not.

Obadiah 1:17 And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 14's "Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways..." into verse 16's "For as you have drunk upon my...", so "lord" and "hand" 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 "lord" and "hand" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.