Psalms Chapter 73 verse 20 Holy Bible
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
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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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As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
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As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
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As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
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As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) As a dream.--Better,"As a man on waking (despises) his dream,So, O Lord, on rousing thyself, thou wiltDespise 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."
