Genesis 1:2

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

For 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 says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.

At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Of Damascus: “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet.

It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

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

When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.

“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’

I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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