תֹּ֫הוּ

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

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

…those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.