² 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.

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

³⁰ You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

¹⁸ For thus says Yahweh 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 Yahweh; and there is no one else.