Psalms 104:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Coverest, or adornest, or clothest. With light; either,

1. With that light which no man can approach unto, as it is called 1 Timothy 6:16, wherewith therefore he may well be said to be covered or hid from the eyes of mortal men. Or rather,

2. With that first-created light, Genesis 1:3, which the psalmist fitly puts in the first place, as being the first of God's visible works. Like a curtain; the use whereof it hath, partly in reference to that glorious mansion of the blessed God and his holy angels, which these visible heavens (far above which it is, Ephesians 4:10) do veil and cover; and partly in reference to the earth, which they enclose and protect.

Psalms 104:2

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