Genesis 1:2

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:23

[In a vision Jeremiah sees Judah laid waste by conquest and captivity.] I looked at the land, and behold, it was [as at the time of creation] waste and vacant (void); and at the heavens, and they had no light.

Psalm 104:30

When You send forth Your Spirit and give them breath, they are created, and You replenish the face of the ground.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord–Who created the heavens, God Himself, Who formed the earth and made it, Who established it and did not create it to be a worthless waste; He formed it to be inhabited–I am the Lord, and there is no one else.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all their host by the breath of His mouth. [Heb. 11:3; II Pet. 3:5.]

Job 26:7

He it is Who spreads out the northern skies over emptiness and hangs the earth upon or over nothing.

Job 26:14

Yet these are but [a small part of His doings] the outskirts of His ways or the mere fringes of His force, the faintest whisper of His voice! Who dares contemplate or who can understand the thunders of His full, magnificent power?

Nahum 2:10

Emptiness! Desolation! Utter waste! Hearts faint and knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of all grow pale! [Isa. 13:7, 8.]

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [Gen. 1:3.]

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, He spread abroad His wings and He took them, He bore them on His pinions. [Luke 13:34.]

Job 38:9

When I made the clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. [Gen. 1:2; II Pet. 3:5.]

Psalm 136:6

To Him Who stretched out the earth upon the waters, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever;

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps!

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water.

Isaiah 31:5

Like birds hovering, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; He will protect and deliver it, He will pass over and spare and preserve it.

Job 41:32

[His swift darting] makes a shining track behind him; one would think the deep to be hoary [with foam].