Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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.

Darby Translation

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

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 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 shall You destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men. 11 For they intended evil against You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail. 12 For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces.

Cross References

Psalm 2:1

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate on a vain thing?

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined.

Psalm 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

Psalm 35:20

For they do not speak peace; but they think deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.

Psalm 83:4

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name Israel may be remembered no more.

Isaiah 7:6-7

Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and break her for ourselves, and set a king in the midst of it, the son of Tabeal.

Isaiah 8:9-10

Suffer evil, O people, and be broken! And give ear, all from the far places of the earth. Gird yourselves and be broken. Gird yourselves and be broken!

Jeremiah 11:18-19

And Jehovah made me know, and I knew. Then You showed me their doings.

Ezekiel 11:2

And He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city;

Matthew 2:8

And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child. And when you have found him, bring me word again so that I may come and worship him also.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was greatly enraged. And he sent and killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully inquired of the wise men.

Matthew 21:46

But seeking to lay hands on Him, they feared the crowd, because they held Him for a prophet.

Matthew 26:4-5

And they consulted so that they might take Jesus by guile and kill Him.

Matthew 27:63-64

saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while He was living, After three days I will rise again.

Matthew 28:2-6

And behold, a great earthquake occurred! For coming down from Heaven, and coming up, an angel of the Lord rolled back the stone from the door and was sitting on it.

Acts 4:17-18

But, so that it spread no further among the people, let us strictly threaten them, that they speak to no man in this name from now on.

Acts 5:27-28

And bringing them, they stood in the sanhedrin. And the high priest asked them,

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