Psalms 9:17

The wicked and the nations that forget God will be turned back to Sheol. Forgetting God leads to destruction.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
• Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• Job 8:13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
• Rom 2:8–9but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
• 2 Th 1:7–9and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
• Jer 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
• Jer 18:15For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
• Jer 13:25This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh; “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
• Isa 3:11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
• Rev 20:15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Isa 5:14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• Matt 25:41–46Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Ps 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
• Ps 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
• Jer 3:21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
• Ps 44:17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
• Hos 2:13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

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