Parallel Verses
Webster
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
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.
International Standard Version
Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise.
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.
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 are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
Names
Cross References
Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Psalm 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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.
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.