Genesis 1:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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—

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.

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.

Genesis 1:2 Cross References

Job 26:14

Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 26:7

He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Job 38:9

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Job 41:32

He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.

Psalm 104:30

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; And thou renewest the face of the ground.

Psalm 104:6

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 136:6

To him that spread forth the earth above the waters: For his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 148:7

Praise the LORD from the earth, Ye dragons, and all deeps:

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Isaiah 31:5

As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, he will pass over and preserve it.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; he is God; that formed the earth and made it; he established it, he created it not a waste, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions: