OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 9:17

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The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

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Verse 17. Hands. Caught in the very act, so that he cannot deny the crime. Here we find in Hebrew ( Calmet.) higaion sela, which S. Jerom renders, “by meditation for ever.” Bible.—Septuagint Sym. and some Lat. copies, “a canticle of the psalm’s division,” διαψαλματος. Here perhaps the psalm ended. Calmet.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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