Genesis 1:2

New English Translation

Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

Cross References

Job 26:14

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

Job 26:7

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

Job 38:9

when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Job 41:32

It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

Psalm 104:30

When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

Psalm 104:6

The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

Psalm 136:6

to the one who spread out the earth over the water, for his loyal love endures,

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, you sea creatures and all you ocean depths,

Psalm 33:6

By the Lord’s decree the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

Isaiah 31:5

Just as birds hover over a nest, so the Lord who commands armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; as he passes over he will rescue it.

Isaiah 45:18

For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky – he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited – “I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Jeremiah 4:23

“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.

Nahum 2:10

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.