The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
The wicked shall be turned into hell. The Hebrew for "hell" is emphatic х li-Shª'owlaah (H7585), the Hebrew suffix, -aah, being expressive of locality]. The same God who "lifts up" the godly "from the gates of death," shall "turn the wicked (from this world, where they are in prosperity) into hell" ( Shª'owl (H7585)): their own place. (And) all the nations that forget God. Not distinct from the wicked, because there is no "and" in the Hebrew. "The wicked" - namely, "all the nations that forget God." Not mere ignorance, such as that of the pagan, is meant; but willful ignoring of God, the Judge and Avenger of guilt. All such as apostatize from the true faith, searing conscience as with a hot iron (1 Timothy 4:1-2). The characteristic of the anti-Christian apostasy in the last days, of which the symptoms already are seen in the professing Church and in the world. The wicked who forget God shall be put away from His remembrance forever.