Genesis 1:2 - Catholic Public Domain Version

² But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Common English Bible

² the earth was without shape or form, it was dark over the deep sea, and God’s wind swept over the waters—

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved over the waters.

English Standard Version 2016

² The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:2 Cross References

Job 26:14

Behold, these things have been said about his ways in part, and, since we barely have heard a small drop of his word, who will be able to gaze upon the thunder of his greatness?

Job 26:7

He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.

Job 38:9

when I stationed a cloud as its garment and wrapped it in a mist as if swaddling an infant?

Psalm 104:30

Their land brought forth frogs, even in the inner chambers of their kings.

Psalm 104:6

you offspring of Abraham his servant, you sons of Jacob his elect.

Psalm 136:6

May my tongue adhere to my jaws, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem first, as the beginning of my joy.

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth: you dragons and all deep places,

Psalm 33:6

Approach him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded.

Proverbs 8:24

The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted.

Isaiah 31:5

Like birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and freeing, passing over and saving.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, the very Molder of it. He did not create it to no purpose. He formed it so that it would be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I gazed upon the earth, and behold, it was empty and brought to nothing. And I gazed upon the heavens, but there was no light in them.

Nahum 2:10

She has been scattered, and cut, and torn apart. And the heart melts, and the knees buckle, and weakness is in every temperament. And the faces of them all are like a black kettle.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who told the light to shine out of darkness, has shined a light into our hearts, to illuminate the knowledge of the splendor of God, in the person of Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 32:11

just as an eagle encourages its young to fly, and, flying above them, stretches out its wings, and takes them up, and carries them on its shoulders.