Psalms 21:11 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 21:11

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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31 verses on the floor

Psalms 33:10
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Psalms 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Proverbs 19:21
There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
Nahum 1:9
What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

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What is devised and designed against religion, and against the instruments God raises up to support and advance it, is very evil and mischievous, and God takes it as devised and designed against himself and will so reckon for it. (3.) The disappointment of them: "They devise what they are not able to perform, "

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

In this there is an eye to Messiah the Prince, and the glory of his kingdom; for to him divers passages in this psalm are more applicable than to David himself. The Subject's Thanksgiving. 1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O L ORD ; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thee - Against God, not directly, but by consequence, because it was against David, whom God had anointed, and against the Lord's people, whose injuries God takes as done to himself.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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