Note: Words translating tobu are in brown. Tohu wabohu and bohu are in blue.
Gen 1:2 — 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.
Deut 32:10 — In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
1 Sam 12:21 — Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.
Job 6:18 — Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go up into the wasteland and perish.
Job 12:24 — He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he sends them wandering through a trackless waste.
Job 26:7 — He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
Psm 107:40 — he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.
Isa 24:10 — The ruined city lies desolate; the entrance to every house is barred.
Isa 29:21 — those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare — the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.
Isa 34:11 — The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb-line of desolation.
Isa 40:17 — Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.
Isa 40:23 — He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
Isa 41:29 — See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.
Isa 44:9 — All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.
Isa 45:18 — For this is what the Lord says—he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited—he says: "I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isa 45:19 — I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob's descendants, `Seek me in vain.' I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right.
Isa 49:4 — But I said, "I have laboured to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due to me is in the Lord's hand, and my reward is with my God."
Isa 59:4 — No-one calls for justice; no-one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
Jer 4:23 — I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
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