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Surely God Is Good to Israel

Psalms 73:20

In 11 translations

BSB
Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
KJV
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
WEB
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
ASV
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
LSV
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, || In awaking, You despise their image.
YLT
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
DBY
As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
DRC72:20
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
GNV
As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
JPS
As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.
LXXE72:20
As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כַּחֲל֥וֹם מֵהָקִ֑יץ אֲ֝דֹנָי בָּעִ֤יר ׀ צַלְמָ֬ם תִּבְזֶֽה׃
LXX-Br72:20
Ὡσεὶ ἐνύπνιον ἐξεγειρομένου, Κύριε ἐν τῇ πόλει σου τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτῶν ἐξουδενώσεις.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
  • Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
  • Isaiah 29:7–8All 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, as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then…
  • Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
  • 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.
  • Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

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  • 72:20 in some Bibles
  • 73:20 in most Bibles

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