He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Psalm 73:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 As a dream when one awaketh; So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. 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. |
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
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.
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries: And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgement.
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.