Psalm 73:20 Parallel Translations

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.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Psalm 73:20 Cross References

XREF:

1 Samuel 2:30 "Therefore the LORD God of Israel declares, 'I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever'; but now the LORD declares, 'Far be it from Me-- for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

Job 20:8 "He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

Psalm 78:65 Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a warrior overcome by wine. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

73:20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when {k} thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
(k) When you open our eyes to consider your heavenly happiness, we contemn all their vain pomp.

WES:

73:20 They awake - Out of the pleasant dream of this vain life. Despise - Thou shalt make them despicable both to themselves and to all others; raise them to shame, and everlasting contempt. Image - All their felicity and glory, which shall be evidently discerned to be, no real or substantial thing, but a mere image or shadow.

MHC:

73:15-20 The psalmist having shown the progress of his temptation, shows how faith and grace prevailed. He kept up respect for God's people, and with that he restrained himself from speaking what he had thought amiss. It is a sign that we repent of the evil thoughts of the heart, if we suppress them. Nothing gives more offence to God's children, than to say it is vain to serve God; for there is nothing more contrary to their universal experience. He prayed to God to make this matter plain to him; and he understood the wretched end of wicked people; even in the height of their prosperity they were but ripening for ruin. The sanctuary must be the resort of a tempted soul. The righteous man's afflictions end in peace, therefore he is happy; the wicked man's enjoyments end in destruction, therefore he is miserable. The prosperity of the wicked is short and uncertain, slippery places. See what their prosperity is; it is but a vain show, it is only a corrupt imagination, not substance, but a mere shadow; it is as a dream, which may please us a little while we are slumbering, yet even then it disturbs our repose.

CONC:

Arise Arising Aroused Arousest Awake Awakening Awakes Awakest Awaketh Awaking Despise Despisest Dream Ended Fantasies Form Image Mind O Phantoms Semblance Sleep Thyself Wakes Wilt

Arise Arising Aroused Awake Awakes Awakest Awaketh Awaking Despise Despisest Dream Ended Fantasies Form Image Mind Semblance Sleep Thyself Wakes Wilt

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