Psalm 73:20 {72:20}
Good News Translation
They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.

New Revised Standard Version
They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.

Contemporary English Version
They will disappear, Lord, despised like a bad dream the morning after.

New American Bible
They are like a dream after waking, Lord, dismissed like shadows when you arise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

as a

Psalm 90:5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Job 20:8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Isaiah 29:7,8 And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it. . . .

when

Psalm 7:6 Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

Psalm 78:65 And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

their

Psalm 39:6 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
19How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity. 20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.21For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

Job 20:8
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Psalm 78:65
And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.

Psalm 73:19
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