Psalms Chapter 104 verse 2 Holy Bible
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
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You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
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Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain; --
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Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
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He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
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Covering himself `with' light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,
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Psalms 104 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment. Light was the first thing created (Genesis 1:3), before either the heaven (Genesis 1:6-8) or the earth (Genesis 1:9, 10). In light God, the invisible, as it were, enshrouds himself, making it the image of his hidden glory. Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; or, "a canopy" (comp. Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 44:25). The metaphor is taken from the stretching out or "spreading out" of a tent (see Isaiah 40:22).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Who coverest.--Perhaps better with the participles of the original retained:Putting on light as a robe;Spreading the heavens as a curtain.The psalmist does not think of the formation of light as of a single past act, but as a continued glorious operation of Divine power and splendour. Not only is light as to the modern poet,"Nature's resplendent robe,Without whose vesting beauty all were wraptIn unessential gloom,"but it is the dress of Divinity, the "ethereal woof" that God Himself is for ever weaving for His own wear.Curtain.--Especially of a tent (see Song of Solomon 1:5, &c.), the tremulous movement of its folds being expressed in the Hebrew word. Different explanations have been given of the figure. Some see an allusion to the curtains of the Tabernacle (Exodus 26, 27). The associations of this ritual were dear to a religious Hebrew, and he may well have had in his mind the rich folds of the curtain of the Holy of Holies. So a modern poet speaks of"The arras-folds, that variegate . . .
