God
The opening verses of Psalms 93 and 104 each present a cosmic picture
of God’s reign, and both open this scene with a metaphor describing God’s
attire. In both cases, the verb used is לבשׁ in the qal perfect—God “is
clothed” in glory. In Ps. 104:1, God is clothed in הוד and הדר and in Ps. 93:1
in גאות and עז . Isaiah 51:9 provides a similar image, the arm of Yhwh being
called on to put on עז . Here the same verb, לבשׁ , is used in the imperative
form. (Marilyn E. Burton, “Robed in Majesty: Clothing as a Metaphor for the Classical
Hebrew Semantic Domain of כבוד,” in Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible,
ed. Christoph Berner, Manuel Schäfer, Martin Schott, Sarah Schulz, and Martina
Weingärtner [London: T&T Clark, 2019], 290)
