Psalms Chapter 9 verse 17 Holy Bible
The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
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The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
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The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
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The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
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The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
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The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
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The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - The wicked shall be tamed into hell; literally, shall be turned backwards to Sheol, or Hades; i.e. shall be removed from earth to the place of departed spirits. There is no direct threat of retribution or punishment, beyond the peens damni, or loss of all that is pleasing and delightful in this life. And all the nations that forget God; rather, even all the people (Kay). "The wicked" and "the people that forget God" are identical.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) The wicked.--This is a most unfortunate rendering. The true translation is, the wicked shall return, as in LXX. and Vulg. (not "be turned") to the grave, i.e., to dust, according to the doom in Genesis 3:19, or to the unseen world, as in Job 30:23; Psalm 90:1-3; or the verbs may be imperative, as in LXX. and Vulg., let them return. The verse is closely connected with the previous one. The wicked are bringing about their own destruction, and so witnessing to the righteous judgment of Jehovah. There is an intensity about the original word, lisheolah, with its double sign of direction, "right down to the world of death." And all.--Better, the heathen all, forgetters of God.
