Genesis 1:2

New American Standard Bible 2020

And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, 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 a cloud its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling bands,

Job 41:32

“Behind him he illuminates a pathway; One would think the deep to be gray-haired.

Psalm 104:30

You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground.

Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the deep sea as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

Psalm 136:6

To Him who spread out the earth above the waters, For His faithfulness is everlasting;

Psalm 148:7

¶Praise the Lord from the earth, Sea monsters, and all the ocean depths;

Psalm 33:6

¶By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their lights.

Proverbs 8:24

“When there were no ocean depths, I was born, When there were no springs abounding with water.

Isaiah 31:5

Like flying birds so the Lord of armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and save it; He will pass over and rescue it.

Isaiah 45:18

For this is what the Lord says, He who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it as a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited): “I am the Lord, and there is no one else.

Jeremiah 4:23

¶I looked at the earth, and behold, it was a formless and desolate emptiness; And to the heavens, and they had no light.

Nahum 2:10

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees wobbling! Also trembling is in the entire body, And all their faces have become pale!

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

“As an eagle stirs up its nest, And hovers over its young, He spread His wings, He caught them, He carried them on His pinions.