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Psalms 9:17
Psalms 9:17 is verse 17 of Psalms chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
King James Version
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
World English Bible
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Psalms 9:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
16 The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
17 The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
18 For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
19 Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
Matthew 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
Matthew 25:43I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
Matthew 25:44And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
Matthew 25:45Then the King will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.’
Matthew 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
Romans 2:9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
2 Thessalonians 1:7and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
2 Thessalonians 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
Revelation 20:15And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Psalms 44:17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Psalms 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
Jeremiah 3:21A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 13:25This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.