Psalms 73:20 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

English ASV

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

English Amplified

As a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, so, O Lord, when You arouse Yourself [to take note of the wicked], You will despise their outward show.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

As a dream [which seems real] until one awakens, so, O Lord, when You arouse Yourself [to take note of the wicked], You will despise their outward show.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

They will completely disappear, like a dream disappears after you wake up. Lord God, when you decide to do something, you will think that they are nothing!

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Then they will be like a dream that we forget when we wake up. You will make them disappear like the monsters in our dreams.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

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

English God's Word - GW 1995

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.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when awakened, You will despise their image.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

They are like a dream after waking, Lord, dismissed like shadows when you arise.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

A dream goes away when a person wakes up. Lord, it will be like that when you rise up. It will be as if those people were only a dream.

English NIV

As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

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.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

soon to disappear like a dream when one awakes. When the rooster crows, Lord God, you’ll despise their life of fantasies.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Their present life is only a dream! They will awaken to the truth as one awakens from a dream of things that never really were!

English Tyndale 1537

Yea even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

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