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Forכִּיnearקָרוֹבis the dayיוֹםof YHWHיְהוָהupon allעַל כָּלthe nations.הַגּוֹיִםAsכַּאֲשֶׁרyou have done,עָשִׂיתָit will be doneיֵעָשֶׂהto you;לָּךְyour deedsגְּמֻלְךָwill returnיָשׁוּבon your own head.בְּרֹאשֶׁךָ
Obadiah 1:15
Study it in the app“For near is the day of YHWH upon all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return on your own head.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Obadiah 1:15, word by word
- nearקָרוֹבkarov
near
Close by, or having access to YHWH.
Where else “karov” appears- is the dayיוֹםyom
day of YHWH
"The day of YHWH", when he comes to judge.
Where else “yom” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim
Gentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears- you have doneעָשִׂיתָasita
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asita” appears- your deedsגְּמֻלְgemul
recompense
What one receives for what one did.
Where else “gemul” appears- will returnיָשׁוּבyashuv
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashuv” appears- on your own headרֹאשֶׁroshe
head
The upper part of the body, where the face and hair are.
Where else “roshe” appears
The context
14Nor should you have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives, nor handed over his survivors on the day of distress.
15 · This verse (above)
16For as you drank on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and swallow down and will be as though they had not been.