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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.
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.
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
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
Avraham said to God, "If only Yishma‘el could live in your presence!"
Adonai remembered Sarah as he had said, and Adonai did for Sarah what he had promised.
Sarah conceived and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the very time God had said to him.
David took a census of the people who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds. Then David dispatched the people, a third of them under the command of Yo'av, a third under Avishai the son of Tz'ruyah, Yo'av's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gitti; and the king said to the people, "I will also go out with you, myself." But the people replied, "Don't go out; because if we flee, they won't care about us. Even if half of us die, they won't care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; so it is better now that you stay in the city and be ready if we need help." The king answered them, "I will do whatever you think best." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. The king gave orders to Yo'av, Avishai and Ittai, "For my sake, deal gently with young Avshalom." All the people were listening when the king gave all the commanders this order concerning Avshalom. So the people went out into the field against Isra'el; the battle took place in the forest of Efrayim. The people of Isra'el were defeated there by David's servants; there was a terrible slaughter that day of 20,000 men. For the battle there was spread all over the countryside; the forest devoured more people that day than did the sword. Avshalom happened to meet some of David's servants. Avshalom was riding his mule, and as the mule walked under the thick branches of a big terebinth tree, his head got caught in the terebinth, so that he was left hanging between earth and sky, as the mule went on from under him. Someone saw it and told Yo'av, "I saw Avshalom hanging in a terebinth." Yo'av asked the man who told him, "Here now, you saw it; so why didn't you strike him to the ground then and there? I would have had to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt besides." The man replied to Yo'av, "Even if I were to get a thousand pieces of silver, I still wouldn't raise my hand against the son of the king! After all, while we were listening, the king ordered you, Avishai and Ittai, ‘Be careful that no one touches young Avshalom.' Or, if I had pretended that I didn't know, the king would have known otherwise anyway; and you wouldn't have interceded for me either." Yo'av said, "I can't waste time arguing with you!" He took three darts in his hand and rammed them through Avshalom's heart while he was still alive, hanging from the terebinth. Then Yo'av's ten young armor-bearers surrounded Avshalom, struck him and killed him. Yo'av sounded the shofar, and the people returned from pursuing Isra'el, because Yo'av held back the troops. They took Avshalom and threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled a big heap of stones over him. All Isra'el fled, each one to his tent. In his own lifetime Avshalom had taken and raised for himself the pillar which stands in the King's Valley; because he said, "I don't have a son to preserve the memory of my name." So he named the pillar after himself, and it's called Avshalom's Monument to this day. Then Achima‘atz the son of Tzadok said, "Let me run now and bring news to the king that Adonai has judged in his favor by releasing him from his enemies." Yo'av said to him, "You are not to be the one to bring the news today; you can convey news another day; but today you will not bring news, because the king's son is dead." Then Yo'av said to the Ethiopian, "Go, tell the king what you saw." The Ethiopian bowed to Yo'av, then ran off. But Achima‘atz the son of Tzadok said again to Yo'av, "Come what may, please let me also run after the Ethiopian." Yo'av answered, "Why do you want to run, my son? You won't receive any reward for bringing the news." "I don't care — whatever happens, I want to run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Achima‘atz ran by the road through the desert flats and outran the Ethiopian. David was sitting between the two gates. A watchman went up to the roof of the gate and out onto the wall, raised his eyes, looked, and saw there a man running by himself. The watchman cried out and told the king. The king said, "If he's alone, he has good news to tell." As he ran along and came close, the watchman saw another man running and called to the gatekeeper, "There's another man running by himself." The king said, "He too must have good news." The watchman said, "The first one runs like Achima‘atz the son of Tzadok." The king said, "He's a good man, he comes with good news." Achima‘atz called to the king, "Shalom," prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground and said, "Blessed be Adonai your God, who has handed over the men who rebelled against my lord the king." The king asked, "Is everything all right with young Avshalom?" Achima‘atz answered, "When Yo'av sent the king's servant and me your servant, I saw a big commotion; but I didn't know what it was." The king said, "Go, and stand over there." So he went and stood there. Then up came the Ethiopian, and the Ethiopian said, "There's good news for my lord the king, for Adonai has judged in your favor and rid you of all those who rebelled against you." The king asked the Ethiopian, "Is everything all right with young Avshalom?" The Ethiopian answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rebel against you in order to harm you be as that young man is."
Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me.
Now, all discipline , while it is happening, does indeed seem painful, not enjoyable; but for those who have been trained by it, it later produces its peaceful fruit, which is righteousness.
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.
