They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Psalm 73:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As a dream when one awaketh; So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, so, O Lord, when You arouse Yourself [to take note of the wicked], You will despise their outward show. American Standard Version (1901) As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image. Common English Bible As quickly as a dream departs from someone waking up, my Lord, when you are stirred up, you make them disappear. Catholic Public Domain Version Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity. |
They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.
Rise up, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.
You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;