Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Cross References
Psalm 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalm 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'
Treasury of Scripture
For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
imagined
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.
are not
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 vex 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…
