Obidiah 1:15
"For the day of the Lord is near,
against all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head."
Righteous retribution is an eternal principle of Gods Divine government; it follows sin at all times and forever.
"Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner" (Proverbs 11:31).
Divine punishments are natural events. Divine justice works as naturally as Divine goodness. Sin and its consequences are indissolubly linked as a cause and effect. And The Lord employs his divine principle for all sinners throughout all ages, "As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee". This is divine social justice. The bitter cup of wrath you forced upon others shall be given to you for your drink. Jesus said likewise, "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." The Bible is full of examples of this principle. Basically, you break it, you buy it.
So many examples throughout the Bible. Issac lied about his wife being his sister to deceive his enemies, and his son Jacob deceives him by playing at being Esau. Tit for tat. And look at what that relationship between Jacob and Esau evolved into ultimately. Generations upon generations of wrath between them. And Jacob is repaid by his sons lying to him about his son Joseph. And from that deception the Israeli people are consigned to 400 + years of slavery in Egypt.
You break it you buy it. You hate the truth? You'll become the dupe of many lies. You love to compromise the truth to gain advantage over your enemies? You'll be rewarded with a swampy bureaucracy of liars who ultimately destroy your country. You want to pretend that men can be women and girls can be boys? Your nation will devolve into chaos, no one will trust anything anyone says about anything. Only the lie will survive, until your enemies determine to take advantage of your weakened state. Only then will the people understand their sin and its consequences.
Electricity is universal, yet people become conscious of it and talk about it only when it flashes in lightning and with sounds of thunder. So it is with God's justice. You break it, and you break it, and you break it, and eventually you've got to buy it. Eventually the guilty conscience feels it and calls it the day of divine judgment.
No human soul can sin with impunity and escape the divine balancing.
"This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips."
(Shakespeare, Macbeth)
You break it, you buy it.
Except in the case of Jesus. In that case, we broke it and he bought it. He took that cup and he drank it in our place. Our retribution became our salvation in him. We broke him. We lied, we cheated, we bore false witness against him. And he forgave our sin.