English Standard Version
Psalms 21:11
11Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.
Context of Psalms 21:11
9You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them. 10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man. Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed. 12For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. 13Be exalted, O 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 do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Psalms 10:2In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
- Psalms 31:13For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
- Psalms 35:20For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.
- Jeremiah 11:18The Lord made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds.
- Ezekiel 11:2And he said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;
- Matthew 21:46And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
- Matthew 26:4and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
- Acts 5:27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,
- Psalms 83:4They say, "Come, 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 terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"
- Isaiah 8:9Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered.
- Matthew 2:8And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him."
- Matthew 27:63and said, "Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise.'
- Matthew 28:2And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.
- Acts 4:17But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more 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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