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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 9, Verse 17

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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.
King James Version
The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
American Standard Version
The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
New English Translation
The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,
World English Bible
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
18
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.
19
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20
Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.
1
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?
2
The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.
5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity.
7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.