Psalms 73:20

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

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that temporary worldly successes and dreams are as fleeting as dreams upon waking. When the Lord awakens to eternal truths, He sees through the illusions and false hopes of those who seek temporary pleasures or status.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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; that he is surrounded by flatterers and courtiers; that he walks in pleasant groves, listens to the sounds of sweet music, sits down at a table loaded with the luxuries of all climes, and lies upon a bed of down. He may awake only to find that he is encompassed with poverty, or that he is on a bed of languishing, or that he is the miserable tenant of a hovel or a dungeon. The reality is when he awakes. So it is in regard to our present condition on earth.

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