Psalms 73:18-20
18 Surely ▼ you put them in slippery places;you bring them down ▼
▼ Heb “cause them to fall.”
to ruin. 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment!
Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! ▼
▼ Heb “they come to an end, they are finished, from terrors.”
20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. ▼
▼ Heb “like a dream from awakening.” They lack any real substance; their prosperity will last for only a brief time.
O Lord, when you awake ▼
▼ When you awake. The psalmist compares God’s inactivity to sleep and the time of God’s judgment to his awakening from sleep.
you will despise them. ▼
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