Genesis 1:2

The Scriptures 1998

And the earth came to be formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was moving on the face of the waters.

Cross References

Job 26:14

See, these are the fringes of His ways, and how little a matter is heard of Him! And who understands the thunder of His power?”

Job 26:7

He it was who stretched out the north over emptiness, hanging the earth upon space,

Job 38:9

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

Job 41:32

He leaves a shining path behind him. One would think the deep to be grey-haired.

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 spread the earth on the waters, For His kindness is everlasting;

Psalm 148:7

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

Psalm 33:6

By the Word of יהוה  the heavens were made, And all their host by the Spirit of His mouth,

Proverbs 8:24

“When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs heavy with water.

Isaiah 31:5

“Like hovering birds, so does יהוה  of hosts protect Yerushalayim – protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.”

Isaiah 45:18

For thus said יהוה, Creator of the heavens, He is Elohim, Former of earth and its Maker, He established it, He did not create it to be empty, He formed it to be inhabited: “I am יהוה, and there is none else.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth, and saw it was formless and empty. And the heavens, they had no light.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, even emptiness and waste! And the heart has melted, and the knees have knocked together, and much pain is in all loins, and all their faces have become flushed.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For Elohim, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts for the enlightening of the knowledge of the esteem of Elohim in the face of יהושע  Messiah.

Deuteronomy 32:11

“As an eagle stirs up its nest, Flutters over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Bearing them on its wings.