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Psalm 104

Psa. 104:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who coverest
`atah (Hebrew #5844)
to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or roll
KJV usage: array self, be clad, (put a) cover (-ing, self), fill, put on, X surely, turn aside.
Pronounce: aw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
thyself with light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
q as with a garment
salmah (Hebrew #8008)
a dress
KJV usage: clothes, garment, raiment.
Pronounce: sal-maw'
Origin: transp. for 8071
: whor stretchest out
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
the heavens
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
like a curtain
yriy`ah (Hebrew #3407)
a hanging (as tremulous)
KJV usage: curtain.
Pronounce: yer-ee-aw'
Origin: from 3415
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Dan. 7:9• 9I beheld till thrones were set, and the Ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was flames of fire, and its wheels burning fire. (Dan. 7:9)
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1 Tim. 6:16• 16who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom be honour and eternal might. Amen. (1 Tim. 6:16)
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Isa. 40:22• 22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; (Isa. 40:22)

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Ministry on This Verse

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with light.
Dan. 7:9• 9I beheld till thrones were set, and the Ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was flames of fire, and its wheels burning fire. (Dan. 7:9)
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Matt. 17:2• 2And he was transfigured before them. And his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light; (Matt. 17:2)
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1 Tim. 6:16• 16who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom be honour and eternal might. Amen. (1 Tim. 6:16)
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1 John 1:5• 5And this is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5)
stretchest.
Isa. 40:22• 22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; (Isa. 40:22)
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Isa. 45:12• 12It is I that have made the earth, and created man upon it; it is I, my hands, that have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. (Isa. 45:12)
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Zech. 12:1• 1The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth out the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him: (Zech. 12:1)
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Heb. 1:10‑12• 10And, *Thou* in the beginning, Lord, hast founded the earth, and works of thy hands are the heavens.
 11They shall perish, but *thou* continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,
 12and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but *thou* art the Same, and thy years shall not fail. (Heb. 1:10‑12)
• {v.2-18} There is mention of the light (Day 1) and the formation of the firmament (Day 2) vs. 2-4, followed by the dry land appearing out of the water with its vegetation for the purpose of sustaining God’s creatures (Day 3) vs. 5-18. (“Book 4.” by B. Anstey)
• God, who is light, divides the waters from the waters, stretching out the heavens above over the waters beneath. In all this great work God is seen, not only as creating, but moving in His own creation, He “maketh the clouds his chariot,” and “walketh upon the wings of the wind.” (“Psalms 104” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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