Psalm 73:20 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

²⁰ Ev'n like unto a dream, when one from sleeping doth arise; So thou, O Lord, when thou awak'st, their image shalt despise.

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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

Psalm 39:6

Sure each man walks in a vain show; they vex themselves in vain: He heaps up wealth, and doth not know to whom it shall pertain.

Psalm 7:6

Rise in thy wrath, Lord, raise thyself, for my foes raging be; And, to the judgment which thou hast commanded, wake for me.

Psalm 78:65

But then the Lord arose, as one that doth from sleep awake; And like a giant that, by wine refresh'd, a shout doth make:

Psalm 90:5

As with an overflowing flood thou carry'st them away: They like a sleep are, like the grass that grows at morn are they.