Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Psalms 21:11 in other translations
| BSB | Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail. |
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| WEB | For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed. |
| ASV | For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform. |
| YLT | For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not, |
| DARBY | For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute. |
| BBE | For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect. |
| Webster | For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. |
What does Psalms 21:11 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 21:7-13
The psalmist teaches to look forward with faith, and hope, and prayer upon what God would further do. The success with which God blessed David, was a type of the total overthrow of all Christ's enemies. Those who might have had Christ to rule and save them, but rejected him and fought against him, shall find the remembrance of it a worm that dies not. God makes sinners willing by his grace, receives them to his…
Psalms 21:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 21:11
- Psalms 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Psalms 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Jeremiah 11:18-19
And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings. But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Isaiah 7:6-7
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
- Isaiah 8:9-10
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
- Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
- Matthew 28:2-6
And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. …
- Acts 4:17-18
But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
- Psalms 35:20
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Psalms 83:4
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
- Matthew 2:8
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
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Context
- Psalms 21:10
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
- Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- Psalms 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Psalms 21:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque trazaron el mal contra ti: fraguaron maquinaciones, mas no prevalecerán. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu feras périr leur fruit de dessus la terre, et leur semence d’entre les fils des hommes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn sie haben Böses wider dich geplant, einen Anschlag ersonnen: sie werden nichts vermögen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In te projectus sum ex utero; de ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu: |