Psalms 73:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 20:8 : 8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
  • Ps 78:65 : 65 Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 ...
  • Isa 29:7-8 : 7 And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night. 8 And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.
  • Ps 7:6 : 6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

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    18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

    19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Job 20:7-9
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    74%

    7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

    8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

  • Ps 44:23
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    23Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

  • Job 33:15
    72%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • Ps 17:15
    71%

    15As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.

  • Job 4:13
    71%

    13In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

  • Ps 90:4-6
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    71%

    4For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

    5...

    6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Job 7:14
    71%

    14Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

  • Job 4:20
    71%

    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • Job 14:12
    71%

    12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Ps 73:21
    71%

    21My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Isa 26:14
    70%

    14The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

  • Ps 78:65
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    65Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

  • Jer 31:26
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    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Job 7:4
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    4When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • Prov 23:35
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    35They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

  • Isa 29:8
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    8And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

  • Isa 17:14
    69%

    14In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • Ps 53:5
    69%

    5They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

  • Ps 76:5
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    5Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

  • Job 6:20-21
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    20They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.

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  • Jer 10:15
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  • Jer 51:18
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    18They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Ps 17:13
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    13Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

  • Job 34:20
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    20Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • Job 24:17
    68%

    17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • Hab 2:7
    68%

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  • Ps 83:17
    68%

    17Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

  • Hos 13:3
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    3So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

  • Jer 20:11
    68%

    11But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

  • Lam 3:61
    68%

    61Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

  • Isa 38:13
    68%

    13I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

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    68%

    16Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

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    68%

    21And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

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    68%

    29For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

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    68%

    13O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

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    27When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

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    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

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    4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.