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Atomic Bible
Obadiah 1:15
For the Day of the LORD is near
from The Deliverance of Israel, Obadiah 1:15-21
What it says

The day of the LORD is near upon all nations, and what Edom has done will return upon its own head.

What it is doing

This verse widens the oracle into a general principle of divine reversal.

In context

15For the Day of the LORD is near 16For as you drank on My holy mountain, 17But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, 18Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, 19Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; 20And the exiles of this host of the Israelites 21The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion