Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
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10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from amongst the children of men.
12For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
Cross References
Psalms 10:2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
Psalms 35:20For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who 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, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Ezekiel 11:2He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learnt from the wise men.
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 →