Psalms 21:11
For they stretched out evil against You, || They devised a wicked scheme, they do not prevail,
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10You destroy their fruit from earth, || And their seed from the sons of men.
12For You make them turn their back, || When You prepare Your strings against their faces.
Cross References
Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked, || Is the poor inflamed, || They are caught in schemes that they devised.
Psalms 35:20For they do not speak peace, || And against the quiet of the land, || They devise deceitful words,
Psalms 109:13His posterity is for cutting off, || Their name is blotted out in another generation.
Isaiah 8:9Be friends, O nations, and be broken, || And give ear, all you far-off ones of earth, || Gird yourselves, and be broken, || Gird yourselves, and be broken.
Ezekiel 11:2And He says to me, “Son of man, these [are] the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the magi, was very angry, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the magi.
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 →