Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

"For the day of Yahweh [is] near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your [own] head.

New American Standard Bible

“For the day of the Lord draws near on all the nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you.
Your dealings will return on your own head.

King James 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.

Holman Bible

For the Day of the Lord is near,
against all the nations.
As you have done, so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.

International Standard Version

"Indeed, the Day of the Lord approaches all nations. As you have done it will be done to you your deeds will return to haunt you! so will all nations drink from the cup of my wrath perpetually.

A Conservative Version

For the day of LORD is near upon all the nations. As thou have done, it shall be done to thee. Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


“For the [judgment] day of the Lord draws near on all the nations.
As you have done, it shall be done to you [in retribution];
Your [evil] dealings will return on your own head.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou didst, it shall be done to thee: thy recompense shall turn back upon thy head.

King James 2000

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

Modern King James verseion

For the day of Jehovah is near on all the nations; as you have done, it shall be done to you. Your reward shall return upon your head.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the day of the LORD is hard by upon all Heathen. Like as thou hast done, so shalt thou be dealt withal. Yea, thou shalt be rewarded even upon thine head.

NET Bible

"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.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

For, near, is the day of Yahweh, upon all the nations, - Just as thou hast done, shall it be done to thee, Thy dealing, shall come back upon thine own head.

Webster

For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done to thee: thy reward shall return upon thy own head.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

of the Lord

Usage: 0

is near
קרב קרוב 
Qarowb 
Usage: 77

גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

as thou hast done

Usage: 0

גּמוּל 
G@muwl 
Usage: 19

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

References

American

Fausets

Context Readings

The Day Of The Lord Is Near

14 And you should not have stood at the crossroad to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. 15 "For the day of Yahweh [is] near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your [own] head. 16 For just as you have drunk on {my holy mountain}, all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as [if] they had never been.


Cross References

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you plundered many nations, all the remaining nations will plunder you on account of the blood of humanity and violence [against the] land, [and against] cities and all who live in them.

Ezekiel 30:3

For a day [is] near; indeed, a day [is] near for Yahweh. A day of cloud, a time of [the] nations it will be.

Jeremiah 50:29

Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend [the] bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, [so] do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 35:15

{Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel} {because} it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I [am] Yahweh.'" '

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with {their thumbs and big toes} cut off used to pick up [scraps] under my table; just as I have done, so God has repaid to me. And they brought him [to] Jerusalem, and he died there.

Psalm 110:5-6

O Lord, at your right [hand] he will shatter kings in the day of his anger.

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy [shall be he] who pays back to you {what you paid out to us}.

Jeremiah 9:25-26

"Look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "and I will call into account all those who are circumcised in [the] foreskin:

Jeremiah 25:15-29

For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, "Take this cup of the wine [of] wrath from my hand, and you must give it [to] all the nations to whom I [am] sending you to drink.

Jeremiah 49:12

For thus says Yahweh, "Look, those {who are not condemned} to drink the cup must certainly drink [it]. And [are] you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink [it].

Lamentations 4:21-22

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.

Joel 1:15

Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai.

Joel 3:7-8

Look! I [am] rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!

Joel 3:11-14

Hurry and come, all the nations, from all around, and gather [yourselves] there. Bring down your mighty warriors, O Yahweh!

Micah 5:15

And in anger and in wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations who did not obey."

Zechariah 14:14-18

And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected--gold and silver, and garments {in great abundance}.

Matthew 7:2

For by what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and by what measure you measure out, it will be measured out to you.

James 2:13

For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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