Psalm 21:11

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Summary

Psalm 21:11

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

Imagined

Are not

Acts 4:17

General references

Proverbs 24:8

Luke 20:43

Bible References

Imagined

Why are the nations in an uproar [in turmoil against God],
And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?

In pride and arrogance the wicked hotly pursue and persecute the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words [half-truths and lies] against those who are quiet in the land.

Then the Lord gave me knowledge [of their plot], and I knew it;
So You [O Lord] revealed their deeds to me.

Then the Spirit said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise evil and give wicked advice in this city,

And although they were trying to arrest Him, they feared the people, because they regarded Jesus as a prophet.

and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill Him.

So they brought them and presented them before the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court). The high priest questioned them,

Are not

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;
Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

“Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it; and let us breach its wall and tear it apart [each of us taking a portion] and set up the son of Tabeel over it as its [puppet] king,”

“Be broken [in pieces], O peoples, and be shattered!
Listen, all you [our enemies from the] far countries.
Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered;
Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered.

Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.”

and said, “Sir, we have remembered that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise [from the dead].’

And a great earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone [from the opening of the tomb], and sat on it.

But to keep it from spreading further among the people and the nation, let us [sternly] warn them not to speak again to anyone in this name.”

General references

He who plans to do evil
Will be called a schemer or deviser of evil.

Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’