diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 6b61a1f2..aecea1a6 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.7.0
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
 	golang.org/x/net v0.9.0
+	golang.org/x/text v0.9.0
 	gopkg.in/op/go-logging.v1 v1.0.0-20160211212156-b2cb9fa56473
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 )
@@ -25,7 +26,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.13 // indirect
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.17 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.7.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/text v0.9.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20220609144429-65e65417b02f // indirect
 )
 
diff --git a/pkg/yqlib/json_test.go b/pkg/yqlib/json_test.go
index b2eddb58..919fce9f 100644
--- a/pkg/yqlib/json_test.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/json_test.go
@@ -80,6 +80,13 @@ const roundTripMultiLineJson = `{
 `
 
 var jsonScenarios = []formatScenario{
+	{
+		description:  "array null",
+		skipDoc:      true,
+		input:        "[null]",
+		scenarioType: "roundtrip-ndjson",
+		expected:     "[null]\n",
+	},
 	{
 		description:  "set tags",
 		skipDoc:      true,