Psalm 104:2 Parallel Translations

You cover yourself with light as though it were a robe. You stretch out the heavens as though they were curtains.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

WBS:

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

WEB:

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

YLT:

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

Psalm 104:2 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 40:22 It 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 like a tent to dwell in.

Daniel 7:9 "I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

104:2 Light - With that first created light, which the psalmist fitly puts in the first place, as being the first of God's visible works.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Cloak Clothed Coverest Covering Covers Curtain Garment Hast Heaven Heavens Robe Stretched Stretches Stretchest Stretching Tent Tent-curtain Thyself

Cloak Clothed Coverest Covering Covers Curtain Garment Heaven Heavens Light Robe Stretched Stretches Stretchest Stretching Tent Thyself Wraps

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