Misinterpretations often treat the imagery literally, such as claiming it describes God physically wearing light photons or the heavens as a solid tent-like structure, which pits poetry against science and ignores the ancient Near Eastern hyperbolic style meant for praise rather than cosmology; others spiritualize it exclusively as moral enlightenment, overlooking the psalm's focus on physical creation, or dismiss it as primitive myth, missing its profound theological affirmation of divine majesty.
Psalms 104:2
King James Version (1769)
2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
This verse poetically exalts God's majestic glory and sovereign power in creation, depicting Him as robed in light like a garment to emphasize His radiant holiness and transcendence, while stretching out the heavens like a curtain illustrates His effortless act of forming the vast cosmos, inviting worshippers to marvel at the Creator who upholds and adorns the universe with splendor.