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Psalms 73:20

NETBible	They are like a dream after one wakes up.¹ O Lord, when you awake² you will despise them.³
NIV © biblegateway Psa 73:20	As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.
NASB © biblegateway Psa 73:20	Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.
NLT © biblegateway Psa 73:20	Their present life is only a dream that is gone when they awake. When you arise, O Lord, you will make them vanish from this life.
MSG © biblegateway Psa 73:20	We wake up and rub our eyes. ...Nothing. There's nothing to them. And there never was.
BBE © SABDAweb Psa 73:20	As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
NRSV © bibleoremus Psa 73:20	They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.
NKJV © biblegateway Psa 73:20	As a dream when one awakes, So , Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.
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KJV	As a dream <02472> when [one] awaketh <06974> (8687)_; [so], O Lord <0136>_, when thou awakest <05782>_, thou shalt despise <0959> (8799) their image <06754>_.
NASB © biblegateway Psa 73:20	Like a dream <02472> when <04480> one awakes <07019> , O Lord <0136> , when aroused <05782> , You will despise <0959> their form <06754> .
LXXM	(72:20) wsei <5616> CONJ enupnion <1798> N-NSN exegeiromenou <1825> V-PMPGS kurie <2962> N-VSM en <1722> PREP th <3588> T-DSF polei <4172> N-DSF sou <4771> P-GS thn <3588> T-ASF eikona <1504> N-ASF autwn <846> D-GPM exoudenwseiv <1847> V-FAI-2S
NET [draft] ITL	They are like a dream <02472> after one wakes up <06974> . O Lord <0136> , when you awake <05782> you will despise <0959> them <06754> .
HEBREW	hzbt <0959> Mmlu <06754> ryeb <05782> ynda <0136> Uyqhm <06974> Mwlxk (73:20) <02472>

NETBible

They are like a dream after one wakes up.¹ O Lord, when you awake² you will despise them.³

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “like a dream from awakening.” They lack any real substance; their prosperity will last for only a brief time.

²sn When you awake. The psalmist compares God’s inactivity to sleep and the time of God’s judgment to his awakening from sleep.

³tn Heb “you will despise their form.” The Hebrew term צֶלֶם (tselem, “form; image”) also suggests their short-lived nature. Rather than having real substance, they are like the mere images that populate one’s dreams. Note the similar use of the term in Ps 39:6.