Verse 15

For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be done to you; your recompense shall return upon your own head.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For Herrens dag er nær for alle nasjoner. Som du har handlet, skal det bli gjort mot deg; din straff skal komme tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For Herrens dag er nær alle folkeslag; som du har gjort skal det gjøres mot deg; din gjengjeldelse skal komme tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Norsk King James

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle folk: slik som du har gjort, skal det bli gjort mot deg; din belønning skal vende tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle folkeslag; som du har gjort, skal det bli gjort mot deg, din gjengjeldelse skal komme over ditt eget hode.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For Herrens dag er nær for alle nasjonene. Som du har gjort, skal det bli gjort mot deg; dine gjerninger skal komme tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle folkeslagene: Som du har gjort, skal det gjøres mot deg; din gjengjeldelse skal vende tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle hedninger: slik du har handlet, skal det skje med deg; din belønning skal komme tilbake over ditt eget hode.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle folkeslagene: Som du har gjort, skal det gjøres mot deg; din gjengjeldelse skal vende tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle nasjonene; som du har gjort, skal det bli gjort mot deg; din betaling skal vende tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For the day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Obadiah.1.15", "source": "כִּֽי־קָר֥וֹב יוֹם־יְהוָ֖ה עַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ יֵעָ֣שֶׂה לָּ֔ךְ גְּמֻלְךָ֖ יָשׁ֥וּב בְּרֹאשֶֽׁךָ", "text": "for-*qārôb* *yôm*-*YHWH* upon-all-the-*gôyim* as-that *ʿāśîtā* *yēʿāśeh* to-you *gĕmulkā* *yāšûb* in-*rōʾšekā*", "grammar": { "*qārôb*": "adjective, masculine singular - near", "*yôm*": "noun, masculine singular construct - day of", "*YHWH*": "proper name - LORD/Yahweh", "*gôyim*": "noun, masculine plural - nations", "*ʿāśîtā*": "qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you did/made", "*yēʿāśeh*": "niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will be done", "*gĕmulkā*": "noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your recompense", "*yāšûb*": "qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will return", "*rōʾšekā*": "noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your head" }, "variants": { "*qārôb*": "near/at hand/approaching", "*yôm*": "day/time/judgment", "*gôyim*": "nations/gentiles/peoples", "*ʿāśîtā*": "you did/made/performed", "*yēʿāśeh*": "will be done/performed/accomplished", "*gĕmulkā*": "your recompense/reward/dealing", "*yāšûb*": "will return/come back", "*rōʾšekā*": "your head/yourself" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle folk. Som du har gjort, slik skal det bli gjort mot deg. Dine gjerninger skal komme tilbake over ditt eget hode.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi Herrens Dag er nær over alle Hedningerne; ligesom du gjorde, skal dig skee, dit Vederlag skal komme igjen paa dit Hoved.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle folkeslag: Som du har gjort, skal det bli gjort mot deg, ditt verk skal vende tilbake til ditt eget hode.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For Herrens dag er nær alle nasjoner! Som du har gjort, vil det bli gjort mot deg. Dine gjerninger vil komme tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For nær er Herrens dag over alle nasjonene. Som du har gjort, slik skal det gjøres mot deg, dine gjerninger skal vende tilbake til ditt eget hode.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For Herrens dag er nær over alle folkeslag: som du har gjort, skal det bli gjort mot deg; det du har gjort, skal komme tilbake over ditt eget hode.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For Herrens dag nærmer seg alle nasjoner: som du har gjort, skal det gjøres mot deg; dine handlinger vil falle tilbake på ditt eget hode.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For the daye off the LORDE is harde by vpon all Heithen. Like as thou hast done, so shalt thou be dealte withall, yee thou shalt be rewarded euen vpon thine heade.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For the day of the Lorde is neere, vpon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall bee done to thee: thy reward shall returne vpon thine head.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For the day of the Lorde is neare vpon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shalbe done to thee, thy rewarde shall returne vpon thyne head.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For near `is' the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.

• 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Coming Day of the Lord“For the day of the LORD is approaching for all the nations! Just as you have done, so it will be done to you. You will get exactly what your deeds deserve.

Referenced Verses

• Hab 2:8 : 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.
• Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it will be the time of the nations.
• Ezek 35:15 : 15 As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
• Jer 50:29 : 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape: repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
• Lam 4:21-22 : 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwell in the land of Uz; the cup shall also pass to you, you shall become drunk and make yourself naked. 22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no longer carry you away into captivity; he will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.
• Zech 14:14-18 : 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations around shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. 16 And it shall come to pass, that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
• Matt 7:2 : 2 For with the same judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you again.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Joel 1:15 : 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.
• Joel 3:7-8 : 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off, for the LORD has spoken it.
• Joel 3:11-14 : 11 Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD. 12 Let the nations be stirred up, and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
• Mic 5:15 : 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the nations, such as they have not heard.
• Judg 1:7 : 7 And Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and big toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
• Ps 110:5-6 : 5 The Lord at your right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He will judge among the nations, he will fill the places with dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries.
• Ps 137:8 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be who rewards you as you have served us.
• Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
• Jer 25:15-29 : 15 For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; 20 And all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, 21 Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon, 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea, 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the desert, 25 And all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. 27 Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink, and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; You shall certainly drink. 29 For, behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be completely unpunished? You shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 49:12 : 12 For thus says the LORD: Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk; and are you the one who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.