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.
Jeremiah 4:23 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [In a vision Jeremiah sees Judah laid waste by conquest and captivity.] I looked at the land, and behold, it was [as at the time of creation] waste and vacant (void); and at the heavens, and they had no light. American Standard Version (1901) I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. Common English Bible I looked at the earth, and it was without shape or form; at the heavens and there was no light. Catholic Public Domain Version I gazed upon the earth, and behold, it was empty and brought to nothing. And I gazed upon the heavens, but there was no light in them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I beheld the earth, and lo it was void and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them. |
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.
For the stars of the sky and its Mazzarot will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says the LORD.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
It will happen in that day,* says the Lord GOD, *that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.