Psalms 21:11
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.
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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
- KJV
- For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- WEB
- For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
- ASV
- For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
- DARBY
- For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
- BLB
- For they stretched out against you [for] evil. They devised a plot; they will not prevail.
- ÅB
- For de har lagt onde planer mot deg;
de har tenkt ut onde råd.
De skal ikke lykkes. - OTB
- Selv om de planla ondt mot Deg
Og la en plan,
Skal de ikke lykkes. - B1930
- For de har grundet på ondt mot dig, de har uttenkt onde råd; de skal ikke makte noget.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Read in contextPsalms 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Read in contextJeremiah 11:18–19
And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
Read in contextPsalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Read in contextIsaiah 7:6–7
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
Read in contextIsaiah 8:9–10
Associate yourselves, O ye people, 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.
Read in contextMatthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Read in contextMatthew 28:2–6
And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Read in context