Genesis 1:2

God's Word

The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God was hovering over the water.

Cross References

Job 26:14

“These are only glimpses of what he does. We ⌞only⌟ hear a whisper of him! Who can understand the thunder of his power?”

Job 26:7

“He stretches out his heavens over empty space. He hangs the earth on nothing whatsoever.

Job 38:9

when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds,

Job 41:32

It leaves a shining path behind it so that the sea appears to have silvery hair.

Psalm 104:30

You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.

Psalm 104:6

You covered the earth with an ocean as though it were a robe. Water stood above the mountains

Psalm 136:6

to the one who spread out the earth on the water— because his mercy endures forever.

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth. Praise him, large sea creatures and all the ocean depths,

Psalm 33:6

The heavens were made by the Lord’s word and all the stars by the breath of his mouth.

Proverbs 8:24

I was born before there were oceans, before there were springs filled with water.

Isaiah 31:5

The Lord of Armies will defend Jerusalem like a hovering bird. He will defend it and rescue it. He will pass over it and protect it.

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord created the heavens. God formed the earth and made it. He set it up. He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited. This is what the Lord says: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I see the earth. It’s formless and empty. I see the sky. Its lights are gone.

Nahum 2:10

Nineveh is destroyed, deserted, demolished. Hearts are melting. Knees are knocking. Every stomach becomes upset. Every face turns pale.

2 Corinthians 4:6

We are his servants because the same God who said that light should shine out of darkness has given us light. For that reason we bring to light the knowledge about God’s glory which shines from Christ’s face.

Deuteronomy 32:11

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads its wings to catch them, and carries them on its feathers,