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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.

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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 90:5

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Isaiah 29:7

All 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 29:8

as 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 7:6

Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

Psalms 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Psalms 39:6

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

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