Psalms 21:11

(21-12) For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10(21-11) Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

12(21-13) For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalms 35:20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Psalms 109:13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Isaiah 8:9Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

Ezekiel 11:2And He said unto me: 'Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;

Matthew Henry on Psalms 21:8-13

The Subject's Hope. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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