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Psalms 21:11
11For they planned evil against You; They devised a [malevolent] plot And they will not succeed.
Psalms 21:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- New International Version (NIV)Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform.
Context of Psalms 21:11
9You will make them as [if in] a blazing oven in the time of your anger; The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath, And the fire will devour them. 10Their offspring You will destroy from the earth, And their descendants from the sons of men. For they planned evil against You; They devised a [malevolent] plot And they will not succeed. 12For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat]; You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces. 13Be exalted, Lord, in Your strength; We will sing and praise Your power.
Read all of Psalms 21Psalms 21:11 word by word
כִּי־נָט֣וּ עָלֶ֣יךָ רָעָ֑ה חָֽשְׁב֥וּ מְ֝זִמָּ֗ה בַּל־יוּכָֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 21:11
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar [in turmoil against God], And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?
- Psalms 10:2In pride and arrogance the wicked hotly pursue and persecute the afflicted; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
- Psalms 31:13For I have heard the slander and whispering of many, Terror is on every side; While they schemed together against me, They plotted to take away my life.
- Psalms 35:20For they do not speak peace, But they devise deceitful words [half-truths and lies] against those who are quiet in the land.
- Jeremiah 11:18Then the Lord gave me knowledge [of their plot], and I knew it; So You [O Lord] revealed their deeds to me.
- Ezekiel 11:2Then the Spirit said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise evil and give wicked advice in this city,
- Matthew 21:46And although they were trying to arrest Him, they feared the people, because they regarded Jesus as a prophet.
- Matthew 26:4and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill Him.
- Acts 5:27So they brought them and presented them before the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court). The high priest questioned them,
- Psalms 83:4They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
- Isaiah 7:6“Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it; and let us breach its wall and tear it apart [each of us taking a portion] and set up the son of Tabeel over it as its [puppet] king,”
- Isaiah 8:9“Be broken [in pieces], O peoples, and be shattered! Listen, all you [our enemies from the] far countries. Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered; Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered.
- Matthew 2:8Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.”
- Matthew 27:63and said, “Sir, we have remembered that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise [from the dead].’
- Matthew 28:2And a great earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone [from the opening of the tomb], and sat on it.
- Acts 4:17But to keep it from spreading further among the people and the nation, let us [sternly] warn them not to speak again to anyone in this name.”
Commentaries on Psalms 21:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11For they intended evil - Sinners shall not be permitted to do all that is in their power against the godly; much less shall they be able to perform all that they wish.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11For they intended evil against thee - literally, “They stretched out evil.” The idea seems to be derived from “stretching out” or laying snares, nets, or gins, for the purpose of taking wild beasts. That is, they formed a plan or purpose to bring evil upon God and his cause: as the hunter or fowler forms a purpose or plan to take wild beasts or fowls. It is not merely a purpose in the head, as our word “intended” would seem to imply; it supposes that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 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 favour, and delivers them from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-12As long as even a single enemy opposed the king’s authority, God’s kingdom was not fully present. This prayer requests victory over all evil in the world.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. This terrible overthrow, reaching to posterity, is due to their crimes (Ex 20:5, 6).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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