Psalm 21:11
New International Version
Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.

New Living Translation
Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.

English Standard Version
Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Berean Standard Bible
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

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

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
Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.

NASB 1995
Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.

NASB 1977
Though they intended evil against Thee, And devised a plot, They will not succeed.

Legacy Standard Bible
Though they intended evil against You And devised a scheme, They will not succeed.

Amplified Bible
For they planned evil against You; They devised a [malevolent] plot And they will not succeed.

Christian Standard Bible
Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

American Standard Version
For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because they prayed evil against you and they have conceived a scheme and they were not able to do it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For they intended evils against thee; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.

Contemporary English Version
All their plans to harm you will come to nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Although they scheme and plan evil against you, they will not succeed.

Good News Translation
They make their plans, and plot against him, but they will not succeed.

International Standard Version
Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For they intended evil against thee, They imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.

Literal Standard Version
For they stretched out evil against You, | They devised a wicked scheme, they do not prevail,

Majority Standard Bible
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

New American Bible
Though they intend evil against you, devising plots, they will not succeed,

NET Bible
Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

New Revised Standard Version
If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

New Heart English Bible
Though they intend evil against you, devising a wicked scheme, they will 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.

Young's Literal Translation
For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

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Context
After the Battle
10You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men. 11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail. 12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.…

Cross References
Psalm 2:1
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 10:2
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'


Treasury of Scripture

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

imagined

Psalm 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Psalm 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 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.

are not

Psalm 83:4
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Isaiah 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: …

Isaiah 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…

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Psalm 21
1. A thanksgiving for victory
7. with confidence of further success














(11) For they.--Better, though they have intended evil against thee, have plotted mischief, they have no power at all.

Verse 11. - For they intended evil against thee. Their destruction is brought upon them by their own selves. They plot against the people of God, and thus provoke God to anger, and cause him to deliver them into their enemy' s hand. It does not matter that they can effect nothing. The "intention" is enough. They imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. The inability is not so much from a deficiency of strength in themselves, as from the opposition offered to their schemes by God. The best-laid plans an powerless, if God wills to baffle them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Though
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they intend
נָט֣וּ (nā·ṭū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

You
עָלֶ֣יךָ (‘ā·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

harm,
רָעָ֑ה (rā·‘āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

the schemes
מְ֝זִמָּ֗ה (mə·zim·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4209: A plan, evil, sometimes good

they devise
חָֽשְׁב֥וּ (ḥā·šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2803: To think, account

will not
בַּל־ (bal-)
Adverb
Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest

prevail.
יוּכָֽלוּ׃ (yū·ḵā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3201: To be able, have power


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