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Psalms 73:20
Psalms 73:20 is verse 20 of Psalms chapter 73, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
King James Version
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
World English Bible
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
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Psalms 73:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
19 How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
20 Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
21 When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Isaiah 29:7All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
Isaiah 29:8as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.