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And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, says the LORD.
The Vigil
Today’s scroll, one verse at a time — each linked to the last by the cross-references rather than by any model of you. The same vigil for everyone, and a different one tomorrow.
In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
from Amos 3:15
Look, your house is left to you desolate.
from Isaiah 5:9
But when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand,) then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains:
from Matthew 23:38
Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it: for the time is at hand.
from Mark 13:14
a thread opens
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
from Acts 20:21
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the knowledge of the truth;
from Matthew 4:17
But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
from II Timothy 2:25
Flee also youthful passions: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
from I Timothy 6:11 · a strong link
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.
from II Timothy 2:22
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Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:
Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
from Acts 13:38
For to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
from Acts 5:31 · a strong link
And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
from Luke 2:11 · a strong link
Tell, and bring them near; yes, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
from Matthew 1:21
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me:
from Isaiah 45:21
It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
from Isaiah 45:5
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Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
from Acts 17:31
Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
from Romans 2:16 · a strong link
Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it.
from II Timothy 2:8
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For truly against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
from Acts 4:27 · a strong link
And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
from Matthew 27:2 · a strong link
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
from Matthew 20:19
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree.
from Acts 2:23
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You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.
But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
from Acts 7:51
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
from Acts 7:27
The stone which the builders refused has become the head stone of the corner.
from Acts 7:35
This is the stone which was set at nothing of you builders, which has become the cornerstone.
from Psalms 118:22 · a strong link
The wicked flee when no man pursues: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
from Acts 4:11
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And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.
But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
from Acts 22:21 · a strong link
At my first defense no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
from Acts 9:15
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
from II Timothy 4:16 · a strong link
And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
from Acts 7:60
And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
from Acts 21:5 · a strong link
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
from Acts 20:36
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Amos 3:15 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.
Each verse follows the one before it along the chain a study Bible draws — a century old, public, and compiled by people arguing about Scripture rather than about how long you stay. Every card says which verse it came from and opens the chapter it belongs to. Today’s vigil is the same for every reader and is worked out from the date alone, so there is no account, no counter, and nothing stored in your browser or ours.
The text is the Lantern Modern Standard. The links are openbible.info’s cross-reference set (CC BY), the same apparatus behind the reader’s Echoes drawer. Read a whole book · Today’s table