As a dream when one awaketh.
The sleep and dream of ungodly men
I. The ungodly are asleep. Not physically but spiritually.
II. In this sleep they dream. They fancy the world and its joys are real, abiding, secure, satisfying.
III. At death they awake. Their all is in this world, and lo, death comes and strips them of all they valued, as a dream of one awaking. How much better to have this awakening here! (W. Harris.)
Verse Psalms 73:20. _AS A DREAM WHEN_ ONE _AWAKETH_] So their goods fled away. Their _possession_ was a _dream_-their _privation, real_. _THOU SHALT DESPISE THEIR IMAGE._] While destitute of true re...
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...
III. THE LEVITICUS SECTION: BOOK THREE: PSALM 73-89 The third division of the book of Psalms corresponds in character to the third book of the Pentateuch, the book of Leviticus. That is the book of th...
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 death...
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. imag...
Faith triumphant in the conviction of an ultimate judgement and the consciousness of the supreme blessedness of fellowship with God....
The awful fate of the wicked is the _negative_solution of the problem....
_As a dream_ Cp. Job 20:8; Isaiah 29:7. _when thou awakest_ When thou arousest thyself, a different word from that in the previous line, used in Psalms 7:6; Ps
THE PSALMS BOOK THE THIRD Psalms 73 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Temptation, arising from the Prosperity of the Lawless, Triumphantly Overcome. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 73:1-5, Under Protest, the Psalmist...
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 I WENT...
73:20 arising (h-11) Or 'in wrath.'...
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 Psalms...
WHEN THOU AWAKEST] better, 'when Thou stirrest up Thyself.' THEIR IMAGE] not themselves. The end of the wicked is nothingness. It is only a shadow of them that survives for God to contemplate....
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE PSALMS OF DAVID (BOOK 3). NOW I UNDERSTAND PSALMS 73 Jesus said, "Make sure that your valuable things are in *heaven". ...
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 boastfu...
כַּ חֲלֹ֥ום מֵ הָקִ֑יץ אֲ֝דֹנָי בָּ עִ֤יר
Psalms 73:1 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 49:1. It tells how the prosperity of the godless,...
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 unseen...
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 tell...
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....
The obscure of the earth. Mean and ignoble wretches have been filled, that is, enriched, with houses of iniquity, that is, with our estates and possessions, which they have unjustly acquired. (Challon...
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 t...
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, “They shall b...
BOOK 3 - PSALMS 73-89 In the Third Book we get out into a larger sphere than the state of the residue of the Jews in the last days, whether in Jerusalem or driven out; and hence we find much less of t...
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 find t...
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 dream...
_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; o...
The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth...
As a dream when one awaketh, from the moment when a person arouses himself from his sleep, SO, O LORD, WHEN THOU AWAKEST, THOU SHALT DESPISE THEIR IMAGE. A dream may seem real enough while it lasts. b...
15-20 The psalmist having shown the progress of his temptation, shows how faith and grace prevailed. He kept up respect for God's people, and with that he restrained himself from speaking what he had...
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....
Psalms 73:20 dream H2472 awakes H6974 (H8687) Lord H136 awake H5782 despise H959 (H8799) image H6754...
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, o...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; and you shall find that those who sing the sweetest t...
The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he also knew that he was greatly tried, whereas he sa...
Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim the clear vision of faith. Psalms 73:1. _Truly Go...
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....
CONTENTS: The temptation to envy the prosperity of wicked people and how to fortify ones self against it. The awful fate of the ungodly. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: Observing that many wicked...
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. Hezek...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:1. This is a wisdom psalm. God’s people should trust him even when it seems unbelievers do not suffer because of their sin. They should remember the contrasting outcomes...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:18 Here is “their end” (v. Psalms 73:17): God has SET the arrogant IN SLIPPERY PLACES, so that
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 tempora...
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 a great...
Psa 73:1-28 begins with an affirmation of a basic foundational truth concerning God. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart (Psalms 73:1). It is important that we have basi...
Isaiah 29:7; Isaiah 29:8; Job 20:8; Psalms 39:6; Psalms 7:6;...
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 the...
How can this verse talk about God awakening when Psalms 121:3 states that God never sleeps? (See comments on Psalms 44:23)...