Psalms 21:11 Cross References

Psalms 21:11

11: Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.

Proud and wicked people viciously oppress the poor. Let them be caught in the evil they plan for others.

Then the LORD told me about the plots my enemies were making against me.
I had been as unaware as a lamb on the way to its slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! "Let's destroy this man and all his words," they said. "Let's kill him, so his name will be forgotten forever."

Herod was furious when he learned that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, because the wise men had told him the star first appeared to them about two years earlier.

They told him, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will be raised from the dead.'
So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling everyone he came back to life! If that happens, we'll be worse off than we were at first."

Then he told them, "Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!"

I have heard the many rumors about me, and I am surrounded by terror. My enemies conspire against me, plotting to take my life.

"Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence."

"The Assyrians will cry, `Do your best to defend yourselves, but you will be shattered! Listen all you nations. Prepare for battle--and die! Yes, die!
Call your councils of war, develop your strategies, prepare your plans of attack--and then die! For God is with us! '"

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, because an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and rolled aside the stone and sat on it.
His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow.
The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.
Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.

But perhaps we can stop them from spreading their propaganda. We'll warn them not to speak to anyone in Jesus' name again."
So they called the apostles back in and told them never again to speak or teach about Jesus.

They don't talk of peace; they plot against innocent people who are minding their own business.

Then the Spirit said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who are responsible for the wicked counsel being given in this city.

`We will invade Judah and throw its people into panic. Then we will fight our way into Jerusalem and install the son of Tabeel as Judah's king.'
"But this is what the Sovereign LORD says: This invasion will never happen,

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid to try because the crowds considered Jesus to be a prophet.

Then they brought the apostles in before the council.
"Didn't we tell you never again to teach in this man's name?" the high priest demanded. "Instead, you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about Jesus, and you intend to blame us for his death!"

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