Psalms 73:20 · KJV
“As a dream when {one} awaketh; {so}, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.”
— Psalms 73:20
How are they {brought} into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
Psalms 73 — Context
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19How are they {brought} into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20As a dream when {one} awaketh; {so}, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22So foolish {was} I, and ignorant: I was {as} a beast before thee. {ignorant: Heb. I knew not} {before Heb. with}
Cross References
Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Psalms 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, {and} like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}
Psalms 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up {riches}, and knoweth not who shall gather them. {a vain...: Heb. an image}
Psalms 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me {to} the judgment {that} thou hast commanded.
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.