Psalms 21:11
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
BSB
ASV
For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
KJV
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
"For they intended evil against thee." God takes notice of intentions. He who would but could not is as guilty as he who did. Christ's church and cause are not only attacked by those who do not understand it, but there are many who have the light and yet hate it. Intentional evil has a virus in it which is not found in sins of ignorance; now as ungodly men with malice aforethought attack the gospel of Christ, their crime is great, and their punishment will be proportionate.
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, "
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
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You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen…
Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
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Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
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By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.