Genesis 1:2

New American Bible - revised edition

and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters—

Cross References

Job 26:14

Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and what a whisper of a word we hear of him: Who can comprehend the thunder of his power?

Job 26:7

He stretches out Zaphon over the void, and suspends the earth over nothing at all;

Job 38:9

When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands?

Psalm 104:30

Send forth your spirit, they are created and you renew the face of the earth.

Psalm 104:6

The deeps covered it like a garment; above the mountains stood the waters.

Psalm 136:6

Who spread the earth upon the waters, for his mercy endures forever;

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, you sea monsters and all the deeps of the sea;

Psalm 33:6

By the Lord’s word the heavens were made; by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no deeps I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water;

Isaiah 31:5

Like hovering birds, so the Lord of hosts shall shield Jerusalem, To shield and deliver, to spare and rescue.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, The creator of the heavens, who is God, The designer and maker of the earth who established it, Not as an empty waste did he create it, but designing it to be lived in: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth—it was waste and void; at the heavens—their light had gone out!

Nahum 2:10

“Plunder the silver, plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, to wealth in every precious thing!

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of [Jesus] Christ. The Paradox of the Ministry.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle incites its nestlings, hovering over its young, So he spread his wings, took them, bore them upon his pinions.