Genesis 1:2 (BSB)

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.

From Genesis 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 1:2

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Genesis 1:2: 2. And the earth was without form and void. I shall not be very solicitous about the exposition of these two epithets, תוהו, ( tohu, ) and בוהו, ( bohu. ) The Hebrews use them when they designate anything empty and confused, or vain, and nothing worth.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 1:1-2: In these verses we have the work of creation in its epitome and in its embryo. I. In its epitome, Gen 1:1, where we find, to our comfort, the first article of our creed, that God the Father Almighty is the Maker of heaven and earth, and as such we believe in him. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 1:2: And the earth was without form, and void,.... It was not in the form it now is, otherwise it must have a form, as all matter has; it was a fluid matter, the watery parts were not separated from the earthy ones; it was not put into the form of a terraqueous globe it is now, the sea apart, and the earth by itself, but...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Genesis 1:2: the earth was without form and void--or in "confusion and emptiness," as the words are rendered in Isa 34:11. This globe, at some undescribed period, having been convulsed and broken up, was a dark and watery waste for ages perhaps, till out of this chaotic state, the present fabric of the world was made to arise.