20 As a dream when one awaketh! O Lord, when [a]thou raisest us up, thou shalt make their image despised.

21 Certainly mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reins.

22 So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a [b]beast before thee.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:20 When thou openest our eyes to consider thy heavenly felicity, we contemn all their vain pomp.
  2. Psalm 73:22 For the more that man goeth about by his own reason to seek out God’s judgments, the more doth he declare himself a beast.

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