Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Julia Smith Translation

For they stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.

Modern King James verseion

For they intended evil against You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For they intended mischief against thee, and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

The Emphasized Bible

For they have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

Verse Info

Context Readings

The King's Victory

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute. 12 For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

Cross References

Psalm 2:1

Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing?

Psalm 10:2

The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

Psalm 35:20

For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.

Psalm 83:4

They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

Isaiah 7:6-7

Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein the son of Tabeal;

Isaiah 8:9-10

Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!

Jeremiah 11:18-19

And Jehovah hath given me knowledge, and I know it; then thou shewedst me their doings.

Ezekiel 11:2

And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:

Matthew 2:8

and having sent them to Bethlehem, said, Go, search out accurately concerning the child, and when ye shall have found him bring me back word, so that I also may come and do him homage.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.

Matthew 21:46

And seeking to lay hold of him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they held him for a prophet.

Matthew 26:4-5

and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;

Matthew 27:63-64

saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.

Matthew 28:2-6

And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending out of heaven, came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.

Acts 4:17-18

But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.

Acts 5:27-28

And they bring them and set them in the council. And the high priest asked them,

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