Genesis 1:2

Amplified Bible

The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power], The faintest whisper of His voice! Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

Job 26:7

“It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness And hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 38:9

When I made the clouds its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Job 41:32

“Behind him he makes a shining wake; One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].

Psalm 104:30

You send out Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the ground.

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 136:6

To Him who stretched out the earth upon the waters, For His lovingkindness endures forever;

Psalm 148:7

¶Praise the Lord from the earth, Sea monsters and all deeps;

Psalm 33:6

¶By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, And all their host by the breath of His mouth. [Gen 1:1-3; Job 38:4-11; Heb 11:3; 2 Pet 3:5]

Proverbs 8:24

“When there were no ocean depths I was born, When there were no fountains and springs overflowing with water.

Isaiah 31:5

Like flying birds, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will protect and save it, He will pass over and rescue it.

Isaiah 45:18

For the Lord, who created the heavens (He is God, who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited) says this, “I am the Lord, and there is no one else.

Jeremiah 4:23

¶I looked at the earth [in my vision], and behold, it was [as at the time of creation] formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light.

Nahum 2:10

She is emptied! She is desolate and waste! Hearts melting [in fear] and knees knocking! Anguish is in the whole body, And the faces of all grow pale! [Is 13:7, 8]

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the glory and majesty of God [clearly revealed] in the face of Christ. [Gen 1:3]

Deuteronomy 32:11

“As an eagle that protects its nest, That flutters over its young, He spread out His wings and took them, He carried them on His pinions. [Luke 13:34]