“Therefore, in regard to the latter, David also says, "They have ceased to be and have perished by reason of their iniquity as the dream of one that wakes up." This means: The wicked cease to be, and they disappear as a dream does when one first wakes up from sleep, "because they are in darkness and have walked in dark…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Interrogation of Job and David, Book 3, Chapter VIII
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19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
— Psalms 73:19 —
20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.