Psalm 73:20 “Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their…”

Psalm 73:20

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

World English Bible

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

American Standard Version

As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

Geneva Bible 1599

As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

Darby Translation

As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.

Young's Literal Translation

As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

Bible in Basic English

As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

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Cross references

“As a”

Job 20:8 Psalm 90:5 Isaiah 29:7 Isaiah 29:8

Job 20:8 · BSB

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Psalm 90:5 · BSB

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Isaiah 29:7 · BSB

All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,

Isaiah 29:8 · BSB

as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion…

“when”

Psalm 78:65 Psalm 7:6

Psalm 78:65 · BSB

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Psalm 7:6 · BSB

Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

“their”

Psalm 39:6

Psalm 39:6 · BSB

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

21When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,

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