Genesis 1:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Job 26:7

He stretches out Zaphon over the void and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 38:9

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

Job 41:32

It leaves a shining wake behind it; one would think the deep to be white-haired.

Psalm 104:30

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

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 136:6

who spread out the earth on the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 148:7

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

Psalm 33:6

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

Proverbs 8:24

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

Isaiah 31:5

Like birds hovering overhead, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.”

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos; he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked on the earth, and it was complete chaos, and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Nahum 2:10

Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble; all loins quake; all faces grow pale!

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Light will 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 Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, as it spreads its wings, takes them up, and bears them aloft on its pinions,