Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise.
New American Standard Bible
O Lord, when
King James Version
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Holman Bible
Lord, when arising, You will despise their image.
A Conservative Version
As a dream from awakening, O LORD, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.
American Standard Version
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
Amplified
Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.
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.
Darby Translation
As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
Julia Smith Translation
As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image.
King James 2000
As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a dream upon awakening, when [you] wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
Modern King James verseion
like a dream when one awakens; so, O Jehovah, when You awake, You shall despise their image.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.
NET Bible
They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
New Heart English Bible
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
The Emphasized Bible
As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
Themes
Dreams » Illustrative of » Prosperity of sinners
Envy » Prosperity of the wicked should not excite
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness » Of the wicked » Saints often permitted to see the end of
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Saints often permitted to see the end of
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 73:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Ways Vindicated
19 How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities. 20 Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise. 21 When I chose to be bitter I was emotionally pained.
Names
Cross References
Job 20:8
He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision."
Psalm 78:65
The LORD awoke as though from sleep, like a mighty warrior stimulated by wine.
Psalm 7:6
Get up, LORD, in your anger! Rise up, because of the fury of my enemies; Arouse yourself for me; you have ordained justice.
Psalm 39:6
In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.
Psalm 90:5
You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.
Isaiah 29:7-8
Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Aruel, all that attack her and her fortification and besiege her, will become like a dream, with its visions in the night