“As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.”
The metaphor that the wicked are like a dream upon waking articulates that their prosperity is insubstantial and will be revealed as illusory. The reference to despising their phantom upon waking indicates that what seemed significant will be revealed as empty. This verse articulates that the wicked's prosperity will be recognized as transient and meaningless.
Church Fathers on Psalms 73:20
1. This Psalm has an inscription, that is, a title, “There have failed the hymns of David, the son of Jesse. A Psalm of Asaph himself.” So many Psalms we have on the titles whereof is written the name David, nowhere there is added, “son of Jesse,” except in this alone. Which we must believe has not been done to no purpose, nor capriciously. For everywhere God does make intimations to us, and to the understanding thereof does invite the godly study of love. What is, “there…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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