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King James Version

Psalms 21:11

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Malice;   The Topic Concordance - Enemies;   Hate;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Odes of Solomon;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Device;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Imagine;   Satan, Synagogue of;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.
English Revised Version
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a device, which they are not able to perform.
Update Bible Version
For they intended evil against you; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
New Century Version
They made evil plans against you, but their traps won't work.
New English Translation
Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.
Webster's Bible Translation
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].
World English Bible
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Amplified Bible
For they planned evil against You; They devised a [malevolent] plot And they will not succeed.
English Standard Version
Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei bowiden yuels ayens thee; thei thouyten counseils, whiche thei myyten not stablische.
Berean Standard Bible
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Contemporary English Version
All their plans to harm you will come to nothing.
American Standard Version
For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Bible in Basic English
For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
Complete Jewish Bible
You will destroy from the earth their descendants, rid humankind of their posterity;
Darby Translation
For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
Easy-to-Read Version
That is because they made evil plans against you. They wanted to do things they could not do.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
King James Version (1611)
For they intended euill against thee: they imagined a mischieuous deuice, which they are not able to performe.
New Life Bible
For they planned much trouble against You. They have made sinful plans that will come to nothing.
New Revised Standard
If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.
George Lamsa Translation
For they have planned evil against you; they conceived a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Good News Translation
They make their plans, and plot against him, but they will not succeed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For they have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(20-12) For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.
Revised Standard Version
If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: [but] they coulde not [bring it to passe.]
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For they intended evils against thee; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.
Christian Standard Bible®
Though they intend to harm youand devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.
Hebrew Names Version
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Lexham English Bible
Though they have plotted evil against you, though they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.
Literal Translation
For they stretched forth evil against You; they imagined a plot; they cannot prevail,
Young's Literal Translation
For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For they inteded myschefe agaynst the, & ymagined soch deuyces, as they were not able to perfourme.
New American Standard Bible
Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.
New King James Version
For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.
Legacy Standard Bible
Though they intended evil against YouAnd devised a scheme,They will not succeed.

Contextual Overview

7 For the king trusteth in the Lord , and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. 8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. 13 Be thou exalted, Lord , in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

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

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
Genesis 21:1
And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 21:2
For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Matthew 10:37
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

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.


 
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