Psalms Chapter 21 verse 11 Holy Bible
For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
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For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
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For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
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Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
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For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
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For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) For they.--Better, though they have intended evil against thee, have plotted mischief, they have no power at all.