Psalm 73:20
New International Version
They are like a dream when one awakes; when you arise, Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.

New Living Translation
When you arise, O Lord, you will laugh at their silly ideas as a person laughs at dreams in the morning.

English Standard Version
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

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

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

New King James Version
As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

New American Standard Bible
Like a dream when one awakes, Lord, when stirred, You will despise their image.

NASB 1995
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

NASB 1977
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, Thou wilt despise their form.

Legacy Standard Bible
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

Amplified Bible
Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

Christian Standard Bible
Like one waking from a dream, Lord, when arising, you will despise their image.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Like one waking from a dream, Lord, when arising, You will despise their image.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
It is like waking up when seeing a dream; LORD JEHOVAH, at cock crow you will despise their image.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

Contemporary English Version
They will disappear, Lord, despised like a bad dream the morning after.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As [someone] gets rid of a dream when he wakes up, so you, O Lord, get rid of the thought of them when you wake up.

Good News Translation
They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.

International Standard Version
Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise.

JPS Tanakh 1917
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.

Literal Standard Version
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, | In awaking, You despise their image.

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

New American Bible
They are like a dream after waking, Lord, dismissed like shadows when you arise.

NET Bible
They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

New Revised Standard Version
They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

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

Young's Literal Translation
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

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Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors! 20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form. 21When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,…

Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

Job 20:8
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Psalm 78:65
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Isaiah 29:7
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,


Treasury of Scripture

As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall despise their image.

as a

Psalm 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Isaiah 29:7,8
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision…

when

Psalm 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

Psalm 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

their

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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Psalm 73
1. The prophet, prevailing in a temptation
2. Shows the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked
13. The wound given thereby, diffidence
15. The victory over it, knowledge of God's purpose.














(20) As a dream.--Better,

"As a man on waking (despises) his dream,

So, O Lord, on rousing thyself, thou wilt

Despise their shadow."

an image of the result of the Divine judgment on the vain and boastful tyrants, which may be illustrated by Henry V.'s rising with his royalty to self-respect:--

"I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,

So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;

But, being awake, I do despise my dream."

Verse 20. - As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. As men despise their dreams when they awake from them, so, when God "stirs up himself and awakes to judgment" (Psalm 35:23), he will despise such mere semblances of humanity (Psalm 39:6) as the wicked are.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Like a dream
כַּחֲל֥וֹם (ka·ḥă·lō·wm)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2472: A dream

when [one] awakens,
מֵהָקִ֑יץ (mê·hā·qîṣ)
Preposition-m | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6974: Arise, be awake, watch

upon arising,
בָּעִ֤יר ׀ (bā·‘îr)
Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5782: To rouse oneself, awake

O Lord,
אֲ֝דֹנָי (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

You will despise
תִּבְזֶֽה׃ (tiḇ·zeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 959: To disesteem

their form.
צַלְמָ֬ם (ṣal·mām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 6754: A phantom, illusion, resemblance, a representative figure, an idol


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