Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 73:20

20 As a dream when one awaketh , so, O LORD, when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image .

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.

(i. e.) Stir up thy self to punish them. Or rather, when they shall awake, out of the pleasant Dream, of this vain sinful Life, by Death, and following it. For this seems to agree best with the Metaphor here before mentioned. And the Hebrew words being onely these, in awaking, may be applied; Either to God, or to them, as the Context directs.

Not so much Really, for so God ever did despise it, in the height of all their Glory, but declaratively, things being oft said to be done in Scripture when they appear, or are manifested; as hath been more then once noted. Thou shall pour Contempt upon them, make them despicable both to themselves, and to all others, and raise them to Shame, and everlasting Contempt, as is said, Dan. 12. 2.

(i. e.) All their Felicity and Glory, which as indeed it ever was, so now it shall be Evidently discerned to be, no Real or Substantial and solid thing, but a meer image or shadow, or vain shew, which can neither abide with them, nor yield satisfaction to them. See Psal. 39. 6. Act. 25. 23. where what is rendred, Pomp in the Greek signifies a meer Fancy or Imagination. 1 Cor. 7. 31.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1+ letters]ob 20. 8.; Psal. 7. 6: