Psalms 84 · Verse 6

Psalms 84:6

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
Psalms 84:6, King James Version

Psalms 84:6 in other translations

BSBAs they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.
WEBPassing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
ASVPassing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.
YLTThose passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.
DARBYPassing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.
BBEGoing through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.
WebsterWho 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
6. valley of Baca--or, "weeping." Through such, by reason of their dry and barren condition, the worshippers often had to pass to Jerusalem. As they might become wells, or fountains, or pools, supplied by refreshing rain, so the grace of God, by the exercises of His worship, refreshes and revives the hearts of His people, so that for sorrows they have "rivers of delight" (Psa 36:8; 46:4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Passing through the valley of Baca make it a well - Instead of בכא bacha, a mulberry-tree, seven MSS. have בכה becheh, mourning. I believe Baca to be the same here as Bochim, Jdg 2:1-6, called The Valley of Weeping. Though they pass through this barren and desert place, they would not fear evil, knowing that thou wouldst supply all their wants; and even in the sandy desert cause them to find pools of water, in consequence of which they shall advance with renewed strength, and shall meet with the God of Israel in Zion. The rain also filleth the pools - The Hebrew may be translated differently, and has been differently understood by all the Versions. גם ברכות יעטה מורה gam berachoth yaateh moreh; "Yea, the instructor is covered or clothed with blessings." While the followers of God are passing through the wilderness of this world, God opens for them fountains in the wilderness, and springs in the dry places. They drink of the well-spring of salvation; they are not destitute of their pastors. God takes care to give his followers teachers after his own heart, that shall feed them with knowledge; and while they are watering the people they are watered themselves; for God loads them with his benefits, and the people cover them with their blessings.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Psalms 84:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֹבְרֵ֤י\׀'oe.Rei[those who] passH5674
בְּעֵ֣מֶקbe.'E.mekin [the] valley ofH6010
הַ֭בָּכָאHa.ba.kha'<the> BacaH1056
מַעְיָ֣ןma'.Yana springH4599
יְשִׁית֑וּהוּye.shi.Tu.huthey make itH7896
גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571
בְּ֝רָכ֗וֹתbe.ra.KhotblessingsH1293
יַעְטֶ֥הya'.Tehit covers [it]H5844
מוֹרֶֽה\׃mo.Rehearly rainH4175

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who.
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.

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Psalms 84:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Atravesando el valle de Baca pónenle por fuente, cuando la lluvia llena los estanques.
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?