KJV King James Version
[Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
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Psalm 84:6
[Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.
WEB World English Bible
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
ASV American Standard Version
Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.
Surrounding context — Psalm 84
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5 Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them].
6 [Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
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2 Corinthians 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;John 16:33These 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 5:3-5And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;Joel 2:23Be 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].Romans 8:37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.Psalm 68:9Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.Revelation 7:14And 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.Psalm 66:10-12For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.Acts 14:22Confirming 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 5:22-24And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.2 Kings 3:9-20So 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.
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