New International Version
Psalms 21:11
11Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.
Context of Psalms 21:11
9When you appear for battle, you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and his fire will consume them. 10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from mankind. Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed. 12You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow. 13Be exalted in your strength, Lord; we will sing and praise your might.
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 conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
- Psalms 10:2In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.
- Psalms 31:13For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
- Psalms 35:20They do not speak peaceably, but devise false accusations against those who live quietly in the land.
- Jeremiah 11:18Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing.
- Ezekiel 11:2The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city.
- Matthew 21:46They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
- Matthew 26:4and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.
- Acts 5:27The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.
- Psalms 83:4“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
- Isaiah 7:6“Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.”
- Isaiah 8:9Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
- Matthew 2:8He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
- Matthew 27:63“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
- Matthew 28:2There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.
- Acts 4:17But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no longer 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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