Bible verse
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 4:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 4.
19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
20 Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
21 How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?
22 “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
25 I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
27 For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
KJV
I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
ASV
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
ERV
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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