Psalms 73:20

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; Psalms 35:23, of God bestirring Himself to judgement. The word may mean in the city(R.V. marg. and the Ancient Versions); but this rendering yields no satisfactory sense: the paraphrase of P.B.V., -so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the city," is quite unjustifiable.

their image Cp. Psalms 39:6, note. All their brave pomp is a phantom, a mere counterfeit of reality, an eidolon; and God rates it at its true value.