Psalms 84:6
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
Psalms 84:6 in other translations
| BSB | As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools. |
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| WEB | Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. |
| ASV | Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings. |
| YLT | Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director. |
| DARBY | Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings. |
| BBE | Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain. |
| Webster | Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. |
What does Psalms 84:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 84:1-7
The ordinances of God are the believer's solace in this evil world; in them he enjoys the presence of the living God: this causes him to regret his absence from them. They are to his soul as the nest to the bird. Yet they are only an earnest of the happiness of heaven; but how can men desire to enter that holy habitation, who complain of Divine ordinances as wearisome? Those are truly happy, who go forth, and go on…
Psalms 84:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 84:6
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
- Romans 5:3-5
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
- Joel 2:23
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
- John 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
- Romans 8:37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
- Revelation 7:14
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Psalms 68:9
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
- Psalms 66:10-12
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
- Acts 14:22
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
- 2 Samuel 5:22-24
And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
- 2 Kings 3:9-20
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them. And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab! But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may enquire of the Lord by him? And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah. And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the Lord is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. …
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66:10-12; Joh 16:33; Ac 14:22; Ro 5:3-5; 8:37; 2Co 4:17; Re 7:14
Baca, etc. or, mulberry-trees, make him a well, etc.{Baca} is probably a large shrub, which the Arabs still call {baca,} (see on 2 Sa 5:23;) and this valley, as Celsius observes, seems to be one "embarrassed with [such] bushes and thorns, which could not be passed without labour and tears,"--{bacah,} as 7 MSS., Aquila, and Vulgate read.
2Sa 5:22-24
the rain.
68:9; 2Ki 3:9-20
filleth. Heb. covereth.
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Context
- Psalms 84:5
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
- Psalms 84:6
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
- Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
Psalms 84:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Atravesando el valle de Baca pónenle por fuente, cuando la lluvia llena los estanques. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Bienheureux l’homme dont la force est en toi, et ceux dans le cœur desquels sont les chemins frayés! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Durch das Tränental gehend, machen sie es zu einem Quellenort; ja, mit Segnungen bedeckt es der Frühregen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid in æternum irasceris nobis? aut extendes iram tuam a generatione in generationem? |