## Rashi on Psalms Chapter 84

###### Rashi on Psalms 84:2:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:2:1)

**מַה יְּדִידוֹת מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶיךָ.** כַּמָּה אֲהוּבוֹת וַחֲבִיבוֹת **מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶיךָ**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**How beloved are Your dwelling places** How beloved and dear are Your dwelling places!


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:3:1
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**נִכְסְפָה.** נֶחְמְדָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**yearns** Heb. נכספה Desires.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:3:2
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**כָּלְתָה.** נִתְאַוְּתָה, כְּמוֹ ״וַתְּכַל דָּוִד הַמֶּלֶךְ לָצֵאת אֶל אַבְשָׁלוֹם״ (שמואל ב יג:לט):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**pines** Heb. כלתה, desires, as (II Sam. 13:39): “And [the soul of] King David longed (ותכל) to go forth to Absalom.”


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:3:3
[Rashi on Psalms 84:3:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:3:3)

**לְחַצְרוֹת ה׳.** כִּי חָרְבוּ, וְעַל הַגָּלוּת אָמְרָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for the courts of the Lord** for they have been destroyed, and he says this regarding the exile.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:3:4
[Rashi on Psalms 84:3:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:3:4)

**לִבִּי וּבְשָׂרִי יְרַנְּנוּ.** יִתְפַּלְּלוּ עַל זֹאת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**my heart and my flesh pray fervently** They pray for this.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:4:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:4:1)

**גַּם צִפּוֹר מָצְאָה בַיִת.** בְּחֻרְבָּנוֹ קִנְּנוּ בוֹ הַצִּפֳּרִים. וּמִדְרַשׁ אַגָּדָה: בְּבִנְיָנוֹ מְדַבֵּר, וְהַצִּפּוֹר הִיא כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Even a bird found a house** In its ruins, the birds have nested. According to Midrash Aggadah (Mid. Ps. 84:2), it speaks of [the Temple] when it is built, and the bird is the nation of Israel.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:4:2
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**אֲשֶׁר שָׁתָה.** שָׂמָה:


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:5:1
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**אַשְׁרֵי.** מִי שֶׁיַּגִּיעַ עוֹד לֵישֵׁב בְּבֵיתֶךָ, **וְעוֹד יְהַלְלוּךָ** בְּתוֹכוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Fortunate** is he who will yet merit to dwell in Your house, and they will yet praise you in its midst.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:6:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:6:1)

**עֹז לוֹ בָךְ.** אֲשֶׁר שָׂם אוֹתְךָ עֹז מִבְטַחוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**who has strength in You** Who has made You the strength of his trust.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:6:2
[Rashi on Psalms 84:6:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:6:2)

**מְסִלּוֹת בִּלְבָבָם.** מְחַשֵּׁב בְּלִבּוֹ מְסִלּוֹת דְּרָכָיו לְיַשֵּׁר אֶת דַּרְכּוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in whose heart are the highways** Who thinks in his heart the paving of his ways, to straighten his way.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:7:1
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**עוֹבְרֵי בְּעֵמֶק הַבָּכָא.** אוֹתָם הָעוֹבְרִים עַל דָּתְךָ, וְהִנָּם בְּעוּמְקָהּ שֶׁל גֵּיהִנֹּם בִּבְכִי וִילָלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Transgressors in the valley of weeping** Those who transgress Your law behold, they are in the depth of Gehinnom with weeping and wailing.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:7:2
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**מַעְיָן יְשִׁיתוּהוּ.** בְּדִמְעוֹת עֵינֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**make it into a fountain** with the tears of their eyes.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:7:3
[Rashi on Psalms 84:7:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:7:3)

**גַּם בְּרָכוֹת יַעֲטֶה מוֹרֶה.** מְבָרְכִים וּמוֹדִים לִשְׁמוֹ, וְאוֹמְרִים: יָפֶה דָּן אוֹתָנוּ וֶאֱמֶת דִּינוֹ, וּבְרָכוֹת יַעֲטֶה לָנוּ הַמּוֹרִים אוֹתָנוּ לָלֶכֶת בְּדֶרֶךְ הַטּוֹב, וְלֹא שָׁמַעְנוּ לוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**also with blessings they enwrap [their] Teacher** They bless and thank His name and say, “He judged us fairly, and His judgment is true.” (Another explanation: Shem Ephraim) And the one who taught us to follow the good way enwraps us with blessings, but we did not obey him.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:8:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:8:1)

**יֵלְכוּ מֵחַיִל אֶל חָיִל.** אוֹתָם הַנִּזְכָּרִים לְמַעְלָה **יוֹשְׁבֵי בֵיתֶךָ** אֲשֶׁר **מְסִלּוֹת בִּלְבָבָם**):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**They go from host to host** Those mentioned above, who dwell in Your house, in whose heart are the highways.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:8:2
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**מֵחַיִל אֶל חָיִל.** מִבֵּית הַמִּדְרָשׁ לְבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת, וְיֵרָאֶה צְבָאָם וְחֵילָם אֶל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא בְּצִיּוֹן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from host to host** From the study-hall to the synagogue, and their host and army will appear to the Holy One, blessed be He, in Zion.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:9:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:9:1)

**שִׁמְעָה תְפִלָּתִי.** לִבְנוֹת בֵּיתֶךָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**hearken to my prayer** to build Your house.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:10:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:10:1)

**מָגִנֵּנוּ.** הוּא בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הַמֵּגִין עָלֵינוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**our shield** That is the Temple, which protects us.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:10:2
[Rashi on Psalms 84:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:10:2)

**וְהַבֵּט פְּנֵי (דָּוִד) מְשִׁיחֶךָ.** וְהִסְתַּכֵּל בְּחֲסָדָיו וּבְטָרְחוֹ אֲשֶׁר טָרַח וְיָגַע עַל בִּנְיָנוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**look at the face of** David Your anointed, and ponder his acts of kindness and his toil, by which he toiled and wearied himself in its building.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:11:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:11:1)

**כִּי טוֹב יוֹם.** אֶחָד בַּחֲצֵרֶיךָ וּלְמָחָר יָמוּת, מִלִּחְיוֹת אֶלֶף שָׁנִים בְּמָקוֹם אַחֵר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For a day is better** [To live] one [day] in Your courts and die the next [is better than] to live a thousand years someplace else.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:11:2
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**בָּחַרְתִּי הִסְתּוֹפֵף.** עַל הַסַּף וְעַל הַמְּזוּזוֹת לִשְׁקוֹד:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I chose to sit on the threshold** Heb. הסתופף, to sit habitually on the threshold and by the doorpost.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:11:3
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**מִדּוּר בְּאָהֳלֵי רֶשַׁע.** מִלִּהְיוֹת דָּר בְּשַׁלְוָה בְּאָהֳלֵי עֵשָׂו הָרָשָׁע לְהִדָּבֵק בָּהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**rather than dwell in tents of wickedness** rather than dwell tranquilly in the tents of the wicked Esau, to cleave to them.


###### Rashi on Psalms 84:12:1
[Rashi on Psalms 84:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Psalms/r/84:12:1)

**כִּי שֶׁמֶשׁ וּמָגֵן.** יֵשׁ לִפְתֹּר שֶׁמֶשׁ כְּמַשְׁמָעוֹ, וּמִדְרַשׁ תְּהִלִּים פּוֹתְרוֹ לְשׁוֹן שִׁנֵּי חוֹמָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For a sun and a shield** שמש may be interpreted according to its apparent meaning, but Midrash Psalms interprets it as an expression of the points of the wall.