Psalms 104:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 40:22 : 22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.
  • Dan 7:9 : 9 I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
  • Matt 17:2 : 2 And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
  • Heb 1:10-12 : 10 You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands: 11 They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe; 12 They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
  • Isa 45:12 : 12 I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.

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  • 1 Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.

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    3 The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

    4 He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

  • 6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

  • 18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • 9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

  • 8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

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    29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

    30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • 12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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    8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

    9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

  • 22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

  • 14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • 8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

  • 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • 34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • 17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

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    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

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  • 25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

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    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

    12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

  • 11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

  • 11 Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

  • 10 See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

  • 10 You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

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    3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

  • 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

  • 16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

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    4 For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

    5 Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

  • 3 By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.

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    4 The Lord is high over all nations, and his glory is higher than the heavens.

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  • 20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

  • 10 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

  • 12 They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

  • 30 If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.

  • 44 Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

  • 15 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

  • 13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

  • 4 Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

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  • 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

  • 6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.