Genesis 1:2

New International Version

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”

Job 26:7

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

Job 38:9

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

Job 41:32

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

Psalm 104:30

When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 136:6

who spread out the earth upon the waters, His love endures forever.

Psalm 148:7

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

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

Isaiah 31:5

Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”

Isaiah 45:18

For this is what the Lord says— he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.

Nahum 2:10

She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.