Genesis 1:2

Free Bible Version

The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

This is just a little of all he does—what we hear of him is hardly a whisper, so who can understand his thunderous power?”

Job 26:7

He stretches the northern sky over empty space; he hangs the world on nothing.

Job 38:9

Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?

Job 41:32

It leaves a glistening wake behind it as if the sea had white hair.

Psalm 104:30

When you send your breath, they are created, and life covers the earth again.

Psalm 104:6

It was clothed with ocean depths—the waters even covered the mountains—

Psalm 136:6

To him who spread out the earth over the waters. For his trustworthy love lasts forever.

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, and creatures from all the depths of the seas,

Psalm 33:6

The Lord spoke the word and the heavens were made; his mouth breathed all the stars into existence.

Proverbs 8:24

I was born when there were no ocean depths, when there were no springs pouring out water.

Isaiah 31:5

Like birds that hover above, so the Lord Almighty will take care of Jerusalem. He will protect it and save it; he will pass over it and rescue it.

Isaiah 45:18

For this is what the Lord says, the God who created the heavens, who formed and made the earth, he founded it. He didn't make it to be left empty, but formed it to be inhabited. He is the one who says, I am the Lord, and there is no God apart from me.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; I looked to the heavens, and its light was gone.

Nahum 2:10

Deserted, destroyed, devastated! Hearts faint, knees tremble, stomachs ache. Everyone's faces turn pale.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, “Let light shine out of the darkness,” shone in our minds to illuminate the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

Like an eagle watching over its nest, hovering over its chicks, he spread his wings and picked you up and carried you along.