Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For they stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail.
New American Standard Bible
And
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
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.
Darby Translation
For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
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,
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 21:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
The King's Victory
10 Their fruit thou wilt destroy from the earth, and their seed from the sons of man. 11 For they stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail. 12 For thou wilt set them the shoulder among thine being left, thou wilt prepare against their face.
Cross References
Psalm 2:1
Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?
Psalm 10:2
In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed.
Psalm 31:13
For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul
Psalm 35:20
For they will not speak peace: and against the quiet of the land they will purpose words of deceits.
Psalm 83:4
They said, Come, and we will cut them off from a nation; and the name of Israel shall no more be remembered.
Isaiah 7:6-7
We will go up against Judah and terrify her and subdue her for us, and we will make a king in the midst of her, the son of Tabeal:
Isaiah 8:9-10
Make friendship, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, every land from afar; be girded and be broken in pieces; be girded and be broken in pieces.
Jeremiah 11:18-19
And Jehovah made known to me and I shall know: then thou caused me to see their doings.
Ezekiel 11:2
And he will say to say to me, Son of man, these the men purposing vanity and counseling evil counsel in this city
Matthew 2:8
And having sent them to Bethlehem, he said, Having gone, examine thoroughly concerning the child; and when ye should find, announce ye to me, so that I also, having gone, will worship him.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi.
Matthew 21:46
And seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the crowd, since they held him as a prophet.
Matthew 26:4-5
And they counselled together, that they might obtain Jesus by stratagem, and might kill.
Matthew 27:63-64
Saying, Lord, we remember that that impostor said, yet living, After three days, I arise.
Matthew 28:2-6
And, behold, there was a great shaking; for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come near, rolled away the stone from the door, and sat above it.
Acts 4:17-18
But that it be not more and more exposed to the wind among the people, let us threaten them with a threat, to speak no more in this name to any man.
Acts 5:27-28
And having brought them, they set in the council: and the chief priest asked them,