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

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.

² Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.