Genesis 1:2

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?*

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 38:9

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

Job 41:32

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Psalm 104:30

You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 136:6

To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalm 148:7

Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths!

Psalm 33:6

By the LORD's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Proverbs 8:24

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

Isaiah 31:5

As birds hovering, so the LORD of Armies will protect Yerushalayim. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.*

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is no one else.

Jeremiah 4:23

I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

2 Corinthians 4:6

seeing it is God who said, *Light will shine out of darkness,* who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Yeshua the Messiah.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.