Genesis 1:2 Cross References - Thomson

² And the earth was invisible and unfurnished and there was darkness over this abyss; and a breath of God was brought on above the water.

⁷ He it is, who stretcheth out Boreas over empty space; who suspendeth the earth upon nothing;

¹⁴ Behold these are parts of his ways. But let us hear the least breath of reason for him. As for the strength of his thunder; who knoweth when he shall employ it?

⁶ By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

³⁰ send forth thy breath and they are created: thou indeed canst renew the face of the earth.

¹² Who hath measured the water with his hand, and the heaven with a span and the whole earth with a hand breadth? Who hath weighed the mountains in scales and the dales with a balance? ¹³ Who hath known the mind of the Lord? and who hath been of his counsel to teach him? ¹⁴ or whom hath he consulted that he might instruct him? or who hath pointed out judgment to him? or who hath shewn him the way of knowledge?

¹⁸ Thus saith the Lord who made the heaven, the same God who displayed the earth to view, and who, having made it, parcelled it out: he did not make it to be waste, but formed it to be inhabited: I

²³ [p] I beheld the earth and lo! a void! Then the heaven; and its lights were gone.

¹⁰ What quaking and driving! what groans and heart breaking! what feebleness of knees and pangs in every loin! what blackness, like that of a pot, on the countenance of all!