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Psalms 21:11
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Though they intend to harm youand devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
They made evil plans against you, but their traps won't work.
Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.
For they planned evil against You; They devised a [malevolent] plot And they will not succeed.
Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.
Though they intended evil against YouAnd devised a scheme,They will not succeed.
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
All their plans to harm you will come to nothing.
You will destroy from the earth their descendants, rid humankind of their posterity;
For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
That is because they made evil plans against you. They wanted to do things they could not do.
For they have planned evil against you; they conceived a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
They make their plans, and plot against him, but they will not succeed.
Though they have plotted evil against you, though they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.
For they stretched forth evil against You; they imagined a plot; they cannot prevail,
For they inteded myschefe agaynst the, & ymagined soch deuyces, as they were not able to perfourme.
For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
For they intended euill against thee: they imagined a mischieuous deuice, which they are not able to performe.
For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: [but] they coulde not [bring it to passe.]
For they intended evils against thee; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a device, which they are not able to perform.
For thei bowiden yuels ayens thee; thei thouyten counseils, whiche thei myyten not stablische.
For they intended evil against you; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].
For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform.
Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.
For they planned much trouble against You. They have made sinful plans that will come to nothing.
If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
For they have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.
(20-12) For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.
If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
imagined: Psalms 2:1, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 31:13, Psalms 35:20, Jeremiah 11:18, Jeremiah 11:19, Ezekiel 11:2, Matthew 21:46, Matthew 26:4, Matthew 26:5, Acts 5:27, Acts 5:28
are not: Psalms 83:4, Isaiah 7:6, Isaiah 7:7, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Matthew 2:8, Matthew 2:16, Matthew 27:63, Matthew 27:64, Matthew 28:2-6, Acts 4:17, Acts 4:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 50:17 - they did Job 5:12 - their hands Psalms 33:10 - he maketh Psalms 58:2 - in heart Psalms 62:3 - imagine Psalms 140:2 - imagine Proverbs 19:21 - many Proverbs 24:8 - General Isaiah 33:5 - The Lord Jeremiah 18:18 - Come Nahum 1:9 - do Zechariah 7:10 - imagine Acts 9:24 - And they Acts 23:15 - that he
Cross-References
And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'
And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken.
And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="2sa.18.1" class="versetxt"> And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people: 'I will surely go forth with you myself also.' But the people said: 'Thou shalt not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us; but thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succour us out of the city.' And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do.' And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying: 'Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.' And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom. So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went on. And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said: 'Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.' And Joab said unto the man that told him: 'And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have had to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.' And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against mine own life--and there is no matter hid from the king--then thou thyself wouldest have stood aloof.' Then said Joab: 'I may not tarry thus with thee.' And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth. And ten young men that bore Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. And Joab blew the horn, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people. And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled every one to his tent.-- Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said: 'I have no son to keep my name in remembrance'; and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument unto this day. Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok: 'Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.' And Joab said unto him: 'Thou shalt not be the bearer of tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, forasmuch as the king's son is dead.' Then said Joab to the Cushite: 'Go tell the king what thou hast seen.' And the Cushite bowed down unto Joab, and ran. Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab: 'But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite.' And Joab said: 'Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou wilt have no reward for the tidings?' 'But come what may, [said he,] I will run.' And he said unto him: 'Run.' Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and overran the Cushite. Now David sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said: 'If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.' And he came apace, and drew near. And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called unto the porter, and said: 'Behold another man running alone.' And the king said: 'He also bringeth tidings.' And the watchman said: 'I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.' And the king said: 'He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.' And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king: 'All is well.' And he bowed down before the king with his face to the earth, and said: 'Blessed be the LORD thy God, who hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.' And the king said: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And Ahimaaz answered: 'When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.' And the king said: 'Turn aside, and stand here.' And he turned aside, and stood still. And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said: 'Tidings for my lord the king; for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.' And the king said unto the Cushite: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And the Cushite answered: 'The enemies of my lord the king and all that rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For they intended evil against thee,.... All evil, whether in thought or deed, if not immediately and directly, yet is ultimately against the Lord, whose law is transgressed, and who is despised and reflected upon as a lawgiver; all sin is an hostility committed against God, or against Christ, against the Lord and his Anointed, or against his people, who are all one as himself: the intention of evil is evil, and is cognizable by the Lord, and punishable by him:
they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform]; not the death of Christ; that was indeed in itself a mischievous device of theirs, but that they performed, though they had not their end in it; they expected his name would then perish, and they should hear no more of him: but rather it respects his resurrection from the dead, they could not prevent, though they took all imaginable care that them might be no show of it; and when they found he was really raised from the dead, they contrived a wicked scheme to stop the credit of it, but in vain, Matthew 27:63; and Jews and Gentiles, and Papists, have formed schemes and done all they can to root the Gospel, cause, and interest of Christ, out of the world, but have not been able to perform it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For 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 arrangements had been entered into, or that a scheme had been formed to injure the cause of God - that is, through the person referred to in the psalm. The purposes of wicked men against religion are usually much more than a mere “intention.” The intention is accompanied with a scheme or plan in their own mind by which the act may be accomplished. The evil here referred to was that of resisting or overpowering him who was engaged in the cause of God, or whom God had appointed to administer his laws.
They imagined a mischievous device - They thought, or they purposed. The word rendered “mischievous device” מזמה mezimmâh - means properly “counsel, purpose; then prudence, sagacity;” then, in a bad sense, “machination, device, trick.” Gesenius, Lexicon. Proverbs 12:2; Proverbs 14:17; Proverbs 24:8.
Which they are not able to perform - literally, “they could not;” that is, they had not the power to accomplish it, or to carry out their purpose. Their purpose was plain; their guilt was therefore clear; but they were prevented from executing their design. Many such designs are kept from being carried into execution for the want of power. If all the devices and the desires of the wicked were accomplished, righteousness would soon cease in the earth, religion and virtue would come to an end, and even God would cease to occupy the throne.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 21:11. For 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.
