Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking 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.
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 they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction. 20 As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image. 21 For my heart will be embittered, and my loins were hard.
Names
Cross References
Job 20:8
As a dream he shall fly away, and they shall not find him: and he shall flee away as the vision of the night
Psalm 78:65
And Jehovah will awake as he sleeping, as the strong one shouting from wine.
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger, lift up thyself for the wrath of mine enemies: and awake to me the judgment thou didst command.
Psalm 39:6
Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.
Psalm 90:5
Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.
Isaiah 29:7-8
And it was as a dream of a vision of the night, the multitude of all the nations warring against Ariel and all warring against her and her fastnesses, and those pressing upon her.