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Psalms 21:11

Psalms 21:11 is verse 11 of Psalms chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

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King James Version

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.

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Psalms 21:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

10 You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

11 Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

12 For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

13 Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 2:1

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 10:2

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalms 31:13

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

Psalms 35:20

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

Jeremiah 11:18

And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

Jeremiah 11:19

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Ezekiel 11:2

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

Matthew 21:46

Although they wanted to arrest Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded Him as a prophet.

Matthew 26:4

and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

Matthew 26:5

“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

Acts 5:27

They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.

Acts 5:28

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”

Psalms 83:4

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Isaiah 7:6

‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’

Isaiah 7:7

But this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.

Isaiah 8:9

Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 8:10

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

Matthew 2:8

And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

Matthew 27:63

“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Matthew 27:64

So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”

Matthew 28:2

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.

Matthew 28:3

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

Matthew 28:4

The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.

Matthew 28:5

But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

Matthew 28:6

He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.

Acts 4:17

But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”

Acts 4:18

Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

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