Psalm 104:2 The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent

English Standard Version
covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

New American Standard Bible
Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain.

King James Bible
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,

International Standard Version
you are wrapped in light like a garment, stretching out the sky like a curtain.

American Standard Version
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

Douay-Rheims Bible
and art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

Darby Bible Translation
Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain; --

Young's Literal Translation
Covering himself with light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

Cross References

1 Timothy 6:16
Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach to; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

Revelation 12:1
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars:

Job 9:8
Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Job 37:18
Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

Psalm 18:12
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

Psalm 19:4
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Psalm 119:91
They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants.

Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

Isaiah 42:5
Thus said God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Isaiah 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

104:1-9 Every object we behold calls on us to bless and praise the Lord, who is great. His eternal power and Godhead are clearly shown by the things which he hath made. God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. The Lord Jesus, the Son of his love, is the Light of the world.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. light—is a figurative representation of the glory of the invisible God (Mt 17:2; 1Ti 6:16). Its use in this connection may refer to the first work of creation (Ge 1:3).

stretchest out the heavens—the visible heavens or sky which cover the earth as a curtain (Isa 40:12).