Genesis 1:2

WEB

²The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

KJV

²And 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.

BSB

²Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

FBV

²The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

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Extra References

Jeremiah 4:23

²³I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

Psalms 104:30

³⁰You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

¹⁸For 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 says: “I am the LORD. There is no other.

Psalms 33:6

⁶By the LORD’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Job 26:7

⁷He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Isaiah 40:12-14

¹²Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? ¹³Who has directed the LORD’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor? ¹⁴Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Job 26:14

¹⁴Behold, 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?”

Nahum 2:10

¹⁰She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.