Parallel Verses
Webster
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
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.
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.
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 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 are not able to perform. 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thy arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Cross References
Psalm 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psalm 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalm 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Psalm 35:20
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Psalm 83:4
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Isaiah 7:6-7
Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
Isaiah 8:9-10
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Jeremiah 11:18-19
And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings.
Ezekiel 11:2
Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Matthew 2:8
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go, and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, 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 exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Matthew 21:46
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Matthew 26:4-5
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
Matthew 27:63-64
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Matthew 28:2-6
And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Acts 4:17-18
But that it may spread no further among the people, let us strictly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
Acts 5:27-28
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,