Psalms 21:11

“For they intended evil against thee, etc.] All evil, whether in thought or deed, if not immediately and directly, yet is ultimately against the Lord, whose law is transgressed, and who is despised and reflected upon as a lawgiver; all sin is an hostility committed against God, or against Christ, against the Lord and his Anointed, or against his people, who are all one as himself: the intention of evil is evil, and is cognizable by the Lord, and punishable by him: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform]; not the death of Christ; that was indeed in itself a mischievous device of theirs, but that they performed, though they had not their end in it; they…”

“This terrible overthrow, reaching to posterity, is due to their crimes (Exo 20:5-6).”

“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. Psalms 21:13”

“imagined: Psa 2:1, Psa 10:2, Psa 31:13, Psa 35:20; Jer 11:18, Jer 11:19; Eze 11:2; Mat 21:46, Mat 26:4, Mat 26:5; Act 5:27, Act 5:28 are not: Psa 83:4; Isa 7:6, Isa 7:7, Isa 8:9, Isa 8:10; Mat 2:8, Mat 2:16, Mat 27:63, Mat 27:64, Mat 28:2-6; Act 4:17, Act 4:18 Psalms 21:12”

“(Heb.: 21:12-13) And this fate is the merited frustration of their evil project. The construction of the sentences in Psa 21:12 is like Psa 27:10; Psa 119:83; Ew. 362, b. נטה רעה is not to be understood according to the phrase נטה רשׁת (= פּרשׁ), for this phrase is not actually found; we have rather, with Hitzig, to compare Psa 55:4, Sa2 15:14 : to incline evil down upon any one is equivalent to: to put it over him, so that it may fall in upon him. נטה signifies "to extend lengthwise," to unfold, but also to bend by drawing tight. שׁית שׁכם to make into a back, i.e., to make them into such as turn the back to you, is a more choice expression than נתן ערף, Psa 18:41, cf. Sa1 10:9; the half…”