Psalm 73:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
They are like a dream when one awakes; when you arise, Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.

New Living Translation
When you arise, O Lord, you will laugh at their silly ideas as a person laughs at dreams in the morning.

English Standard Version
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

Berean Study Bible
Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

New American Standard Bible
Like a dream when one awakes, Lord, when stirred, You will despise their image.

NASB 1995
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

NASB 1977
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, Thou wilt despise their form.

Amplified Bible
Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

Christian Standard Bible
Like one waking from a dream, Lord, when arising, you will despise their image.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Like one waking from a dream, Lord, when arising, You will despise their image.

Contemporary English Version
They will disappear, Lord, despised like a bad dream the morning after.

Good News Translation
They are like a dream that goes away in the morning; when you rouse yourself, O Lord, they disappear.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As [someone] gets rid of a dream when he wakes up, so you, O Lord, get rid of the thought of them when you wake up.

International Standard Version
Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise.

NET Bible
They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

New King James Version
As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

King James 2000 Bible
As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.

New Heart English Bible
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

World English Bible
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

American King James Version
As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall despise their image.

American Standard Version
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

A Faithful Version
Like a dream when one awakens; so, O LORD, when You awake, You shall despise their image,

Darby Bible Translation
As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.

English Revised Version
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Webster's Bible Translation
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yee euen like as a dreame when one awaketh, so makest thou their ymage to vanish out of the cite.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, "" In awaking, You despise their image.

Young's Literal Translation
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

Smith's Literal Translation
As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version
As a dream is to those who awaken, O Lord, so will you reduce their image to nothing in your city.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
It is like waking up when seeing a dream; LORD JEHOVAH, at cock crow you will despise their image.

Lamsa Bible
As one who awakes from a dream, so, O LORD, thou shalt despise their idolatry.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.
















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