Psalm 73:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ As a dream when one awaketh; So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

Common English Bible

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

Psalm 73:20 Cross References

Job 20:8

They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 7:6

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.

Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.

Psalm 90:5

You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;