Psalms 9:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.”
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BSBPD
“The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 9:17 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 5:13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
- Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- 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 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
- 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.
- Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- 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!
- 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.
- Ezekiel 22:16And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- 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
- 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.”
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