REFERENCE CREATED IT NOT IN VAIN
Genesis 1:1-2 [1:1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [1:2] And the earth was without form , and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Jeremiah 4:22 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form , and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty , and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain , he formed it to be inhabited : I am the LORD; and there is none else.