Psalms 21:11

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

9Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them. 10Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men. For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform. 12For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face. 13Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: So will we sing and praise thy power.

Psalms 21:11 word by word

כִּי־נָט֣וּ עָלֶ֣יךָ רָעָ֑ה חָֽשְׁב֥וּ מְ֝זִמָּ֗ה בַּל־יוּכָֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 21:11

• Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?
• Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
• Psalms 31:13For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.
• Psalms 35:20For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
• Jeremiah 11:18And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.
• Ezekiel 11:2And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;
• Matthew 21:46And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.
• Matthew 26:4and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
• Acts 5:27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
• Psalms 83:4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
• Isaiah 7:6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel;
• Isaiah 8:9Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.
• Matthew 2:8And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search out exactly concerning the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word, that I also may come and worship him.
• Matthew 27:63saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.
• Matthew 28:2And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.
• Acts 4:17But that it spread no further among the people, let us threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man 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

Topics related to Psalms 21:11

• Malice

In the dictionaries

• Countenance
• Gall
• Intend
• Bible, the
• Imagine
• Pentateuch
• Psalms, Book of
• Satan, Synagogue of
• Messiah

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