Genesis 1:2

New King James Version

The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?”

Job 26:7

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

Job 38:9

When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band;

Job 41:32

He leaves a shining wake behind him; One would think the deep had white hair.

Psalm 104:30

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

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 136:6

To Him who laid out the earth above the waters, For His mercy endures forever;

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, You great sea creatures and all the depths;

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

Proverbs 8:24

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

Isaiah 31:5

Like birds flying about, So will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending, He will also deliver it; Passing over, He will preserve it.”

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, desolate, and waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake; Much pain is in every side, And all their faces are drained of color.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who commanded light to 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 Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,