He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
⛓ Read Psalm 104 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
God is 'covered with light as with a garment.' 'Dwelling in unapproachable light' (v.16) draws on this hymnic image of God clothed in light. The closest scriptural antecedent for the light-dwelling description.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God 'covers himself with light as with a garment' presents the deity clothed in light. This supports the predication 'God is light' as native to Israel's praise of the Creator.
Medium confidence