Psalms 104:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 104:2

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

YLT

Covering himself with light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

DBT

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

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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34 verses on the floor

Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Matthew 17:2
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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17 ); he dwells in light ( 1 Tim. vi. 16 ); he clothes himself with it. The residence of his glory is in the highest heaven, that light which was created the first day, Gen. i.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thick clouds are a covering to him. The vastness of this pavilion may lead us to consider how great, how very great, he is that fills heaven and earth. He has his chambers, his upper rooms (so the word signifies), the beams whereof he lays in the waters, the waters that are above the firmament (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

light--is a figurative representation of the glory of the invisible God (Mt 17:2; 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).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 104:21JN 1:5 JHN 8:12
PSA 104:21JN 1:5 JAS 1:17
PSA 104:21JN 1:5 ISA 60:19
PSA 104:21JN 1:5 PSA 27:1
PSA 104:21JN 1:5 JHN 1:9
PSA 104:2ISA 45:12 ISA 42:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 104:2DAN 7:9 REV 1:14
PSA 104:2DAN 7:9 MRK 9:3

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