Psalms 21:11 · KJV
“For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, {which} they are not able {to perform}.”
— Psalms 21:11
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, {when} thou shalt make ready {thine arrows} upon thy strings against the face of them. {shalt thou...: or, thou shalt set them as a butt} {back: Heb. shoulder}
Psalms 21 — Context
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.
10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, {which} they are not able {to perform}.
12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, {when} thou shalt make ready {thine arrows} upon thy strings against the face of them. {shalt thou...: or, thou shalt set them as a butt} {back: Heb. shoulder}
13Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: {so} will we sing and praise thy power.
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. {The wicked...: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute}
Psalms 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? {rage: or, tumultuously assemble} {imagine: Heb. meditate}
Jeremiah 11:18-19
And the LORD hath given me knowledge {of it}, and I know {it}: then thou shewedst me their doings.
Psalms 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.
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: {vex: or, waken}
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. {people and: or, people, yet}
Matthew 2:16
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
Acts 4:17-18
But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.