Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?*
Genesis 1:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. American Standard Version (1901) And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Common English Bible the earth was without shape or form, it was dark over the deep sea, and God’s wind swept over the waters— Catholic Public Domain Version But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved over the waters. |
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?*
He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:
Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths!
By the LORD's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
As birds hovering, so the LORD of Armies will protect Yerushalayim. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.*
For thus says the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is no one else.
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
seeing it is 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 Yeshua the Messiah.
As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.