Genesis 1:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² Now the earth was formless and empty,  darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² 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

² 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

² 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.

Genesis 1:2 Tagairtí Cros

Job 26:14

These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?

Job 26:7

He stretches the northern skies over empty space; he hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket,  ,

Job 41:32

He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had grey hair!

Proverbs 8:24

I was born when there were no watery depths and no springs filled with water.

Isaiah 31:5

Like hovering birds, so the Lord of Armies will protect Jerusalem; by protecting it, he will rescue it; by passing over it, he will deliver it.

Isaiah 45:18

For this is what the  Lord  says – the Creator of the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, the one who established it (he did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited)   – he says, ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty. I looked to the heavens, and their light was gone.

Nahum 2:10

Desolation, decimation, devastation! Hearts melt, knees tremble, insides churn, every face grows pale!

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’,  has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge  of God’s glory  in the face of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:11

He watches over   his nest like an eagle and hovers over his young; he spreads his wings, catches him, and carries him on his feathers.