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Psalms 73:20
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Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
Like one waking from a dream,Lord, when arising, you will despise their image.
As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
Then they will be like a dream that we forget when we wake up. You will make them disappear like the monsters in our dreams.
Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
They will disappear, Lord, despised like a bad dream the morning after.
They are like a dream when one awakens; Adonai, when you rouse yourself, you will despise their phantoms.
As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.
As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Like a dream when one awakens, upon arising, O Lord, You will despise their form.
Like a dream upon awakening, when you wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
Like a dream when being aroused from dreaming, O Lord, in awaking You will despise their image.
It will be like waking from a dream. Lord, when you rise up, they will disappear.
They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.
When you arise, O Lord, you will laugh at their silly ideas as a person laughs at dreams in the morning.
Like a dream when one wakes up, so You will hate what they look like when You rise up, O Lord.
As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise.
(72-20) As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
As one who awakes from a dream, so, O LORD, thou shalt despise their idolatry.
They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.
Like a dream when one awakes, Lord, when stirred, You will despise their image.
They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.
They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.
As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
As the dreem of men that risen; Lord, thou schalt dryue her ymage to nouyt in thi citee.
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.
As a dream when one awakes, So, O Lord, when you awake, you will despise their image.
As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
Yee euen like as a dreame when one awaketh, so makest thou their ymage to vanish out of the cite.
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.
Like a dream when one awakes,O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
As a: Psalms 90:5, Job 20:8, Isaiah 29:7, Isaiah 29:8
when: Psalms 7:6, Psalms 78:65
their: Psalms 39:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 41:53 - General Job 27:19 - he openeth Psalms 53:5 - because Isaiah 28:4 - shall be Isaiah 30:13 - cometh Daniel 3:17 - our God Luke 15:17 - when 1 Corinthians 7:31 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As a dream when one awaketh,.... So will be all the temporal felicity of wicked men, all an illusion, all a dream; when they lift up their eyes in hell, and awake in the resurrection, they will find themselves destitute of all their riches and honours, and it will be as if they had only dreamed of them, and never enjoyed them; see
Job 20:6 so, "O Lord, when thou awakest"; to judgment, to take vengeance on wicked men, and vindicate his own people; and who seems sometimes to be as it were asleep, and to take no notice of things, when the judgment of the ungodly, and their damnation, seem to slumber, though it does not; see Psalms 7:6 or when he awakes the dead at the time of the resurrection. Death is often compared to sleep in Scripture, and the resurrection to an awaking out of it, which is the Lord's work, Isaiah 26:19, and so the Targum,
"O Lord, when thou shalt raise them from their graves:''
thou shalt despise their image; the image of the earthly man, of sin and of Satan, which is upon both their souls and bodies; which will both be destroyed in hell: or their riches and honour, the vain show in which they have walked, their outward pomp and splendour; which was only a show, an outward appearance, and no solidity and substance; and which will not be esteemed in the great day of account, but despised; see Job 36:18, the wicked will awake, and arise to everlasting shame and contempt, Daniel 12:2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As a dream when one awaketh - Their prosperity is like the visions of a dream; the reality is seen when one awakes. A man in a dream may imagine that he is a king; that he dwells in a palace; that he is surrounded by flatterers and courtiers; that he walks in pleasant groves, listens to the sounds of sweet music, sits down at a table loaded with the luxuries of all climes, and lies upon a bed of down. He may awake only to find that he is encompassed with poverty, or that he is on a bed of languishing, or that he is the miserable tenant of a hovel or a dungeon. The reality is when he awakes. So it is in regard to our present condition on earth. The reality is seen when the dream - the gorgeous dream - of life is over.
So, O Lord, when thou awakest - The Hebrew expression here - בעיר bā‛ı̂yr - occurs in more than fifty other places in the Scriptures, and is in all these places translated “in the city.” This interpretation, however, would be quite unmeaning here, and the probability is that the expression is a form of the verb עור ‛ûr, “to awake, to arouse;” and the idea is not, as in our version, that of “God’s” awaking as if he had been asleep, but it refers to the dreamer when he shall awake. It is, literally, in the awaking; that is, when the dream is over.
Thou shalt despise their image - The image that floated before their imaginations in the dream of life. Thou wilt pay no attention to it; there is no reality in it; it will at once vanish. In the future world, God will pay no regard to the dreams of human life, to the outward show, to the appearance; but the affairs of eternity will be regulated by what is real - by that which constitutes the character of the man. By that, and not by the vain dreams of the world, will the destiny of people be determined. We are to look at “that” in determining the question about the government of God, and not at what “appears” in the brief dream of life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 73:20. As a dream when one awaketh — So their goods fled away. Their possession was a dream-their privation, real.
Thou shalt despise their image. — While destitute of true religion, whatever appearance they had of greatness, nobility, honour, and happiness; yet in the sight of God they had no more than the ghost or shade of excellence which God is said here to despise. Who would be rich at such risk and dishonour?
