Psalms 9:17
The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
In Context
18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
Cross References
Job 5:13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
Psalms 44:17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
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 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
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 Henry on Psalms 9:12-20
A Call to Praise God; Certain Ruin of the Wicked. 11 Sing praises to the Lord , which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord ; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: 14 That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk… Read the whole commentary →