Psalms 73:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Psalms 73:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As a dream when one awaketh - Their prosperity is like the visions of a dream; the reality is seen when one awakes. A man in a dream may imagine that he is a king; that he dwells in a palace; tha...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when (k) thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. (k) When you open our eyes to consider your heavenly happiness, we contemn all their vain pomp.

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• Psalms 73:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  LORD *. One of the 134 emendations of the Sopherim by which they changed Jehovah, of the primitive text, to Adonai. App-32. awakest . ariseth. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. image...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. As it were a dream after a man is awakened. This similitude is often to be met with in the Sacred Writings. Thus, Isaiah, ( Isaiah 29:7 ,) speaking of the enemies of the Church, says, “T...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  As a dream when one awaketh; so , O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. As a dream when one awaketh - So their goods fled away. Their possession was a dream - their privation,...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. -The victory which he gained over his doubts in the sanctuary when he understood the end of the godless. Verse 17. Until...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Book 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As a dream. — Better, “As a man on waking (despises) his dream, So, O Lord, on rousing thyself, thou wilt Despise their shadow.” an image of the result of the Divine judgment on the vain and boas...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 73:1-28 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1-40 ; Psalms 49:1-20 . It tells how the prosperity...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  The true place in which to form a right estimate of life is where Asaph found it-in the sanctuary of God; because from its elevation and the purity of its atmosphere, one can take into view the unsee...

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• Psalms 73:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tel...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! do mark what it was which the Lord blessed to the mind of his servant: namely, his visits to the sanctuary. It is in God's house that we are brought acquainted with God's ways. The secret of...

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• Psalms 73:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  As a dream when one awaketh ,.... So will be all the temporal felicity of wicked men, all an illusion, all a dream; when they lift up their eyes in hell, and awake in the resurrection, they will fin...

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• Psalms 73:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Ver. 20. As a dream when one awaketh ] Such is the wicked man's pomp and bravery, know, what are dre...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They are brought to desolation as in a moment Their fall is wonderful, both for its greatness, and for its suddenness. They are utterly consumed with terrors With the horrors of their own minds;...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The End of the Wicked.       15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Their happiness is like that in a dream, wherein a man seems to be highly pleased and transported with ravishing delights, but when he awakes he finds himself deceived and unsatisfied. Awakest , i.e...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,” or, as in the margin, “ for Asaph .” See introduction to Psalms 50 . Subject .—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tem...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1...

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• Psalms 73:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39 ; 1 Chronicles 25:1 . Eleven other psalms bear his name....

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• Psalms 73:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. The trouble of Asaph In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they sh...

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• Psalms 73:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by...

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• Psalms 73:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth

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• Psalms 73:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 29:7 ; Isaiah 29:8 ; Job 20:8 ; Psalms 39:6 ; Psalms 7:6 ; Psalms 78:65 ; Psalms 90:5

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• Psalms 73:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  They awake — Out of the pleasant dream of this vain life. Despise — Thou shalt make them despicable both to themselves and to all others; raise them to shame, and everlasting contempt. Image — All...

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