Genesis 1:2

English Standard Version 2016

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Psalm 104:30

When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14

Behold, 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?”

Nahum 2:10

Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,

Job 38:9

when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 136:6

to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps,

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Isaiah 31:5

Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.”

Job 41:32

Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.