The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.
For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!
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