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Psalm 104:2
He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
1Bless the LORD, my soul. The LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.
2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
4He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.
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A garment and a curtain turn familiar household things into pictures of God's majesty, making the vast heavens seem small in their Maker's hands.
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Genesis 1:3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.Light answers God's command in Genesis and serves as his garment in the psalm; both portray his authority over it.
Matthew 17:2He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.Both connect light with clothing: God wears light in the psalm, and Jesus' garments become white as light in Matthew.
1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.Both associate light with God; the psalm pictures his clothing, while John speaks of walking in the light.
Genesis 1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”Both describe God shaping the space overhead: an expanse dividing waters in Genesis and heavens stretched like a curtain in the psalm.
Isaiah 40:22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out …Both describe God as the one who “stretches out the heavens like a curtain,” using the same image of his greatness.
1 Timothy 6:16He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.Light surrounds God in both passages, pictured as his garment in the psalm and his unapproachable dwelling in Timothy.
Isaiah 45:12I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.Both describe God stretching out the heavens, with Isaiah naming his hands as the ones that do this work.
Daniel 7:9“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was Ancient of Days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne …Both portray divine majesty through clothing: light as a garment in the psalm, and clothing white as snow in Daniel.
Isaiah 44:24The LORD, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am the LORD, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out …Both name God as the one who stretches out the heavens; Isaiah adds that he does so alone.
Job 38:14It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.The shared thread is the garment comparison; Job's line does not identify that garment as God's clothing.
Psalm 19:4Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,Both use fabric shelter imagery in describing the heavens: a stretched curtain here and a tent for the sun in Psalm 19.
Isaiah 51:13Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because …Both identify the LORD as the one who stretched out the heavens; Isaiah names this Maker amid questions about fear.
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The sky's vastness does not dwarf its Maker. In this poetry, God wears light and stretches the heavens like fabric; creation displays his majesty.
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