Jeremias 4:23
I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aspexi terram, et ecce vacua erat et nihili ; et cælos, et non erat lux in eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐπέβλεψα ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐθέν, καὶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, καὶ οὐκ ἦν τὰ φῶτα αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רָאִ֨יתִי֙ אֶת הָאָ֔רֶץ וְהִנֵּה תֹ֖הוּ וָבֹ֑הוּ וְאֶל הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ין אוֹרָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Void. Hebrew, "Thohu and bohu," like chaos, Genesis i. 2. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.