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     * It is he that sitteth.  or, Him that sitteth, etc.
     # 19:1; 66:1; Ps 2:4; 29:10; 68:33|
     * the inhabitants.
     # 15,17; Nu 13:33|
     * stretcheth.
     # 42:5; 44:24; 51:13; Job 9:8; 37:18; 38:4-9; Ps 102:25,26; 104:2|
     # Jer 10:12; Zec 12:1; Heb 1:10-12|
     * as a curtain.
       Or, "as a thin veil," as Bp. Lowth renders; which he
       illustrates by the following passage from Dr. Shaw.  "It is
       usual in the summer season, and upon all occasions when a
       large company is to be received, to have the court sheltered
       from heat, or inclemency of the weather by a {velum,}
       umbrella, or veil, as I shall call it; which, being expanded
       on ropes from one end of the parapet to the other, may be
       folded or unfolded at pleasure.  The Psalmist seems to allude
       to some covering of this kind, in that beautiful expression of
       spreading out the heavens as a curtain."