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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her in the distance to sojourn.
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.
You who are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
from Isaiah 23:7
Look, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
from Isaiah 22:2
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
from Lamentations 2:20
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
from Psalms 78:64
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Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent you, and believe the gospel.
from Acts 20:21
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
from Mark 1:15
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give to him the throne of his father David:
from Daniel 2:44 · a strong link
The LORD has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
from Luke 1:32 · a strong link
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,
from Psalms 132:11
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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:
Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
from Acts 13:38
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in me.
from Acts 2:38 · a strong link
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
from Acts 26:18 · a strong link
Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
from Luke 1:79
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
from John 8:12
But this comes to pass, so that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
from Matthew 4:14
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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.
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved to fire for the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
from Acts 17:31
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a roar, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works in it shall be burned up.
from II Peter 3:7 · a strong link
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
from II Peter 3:10
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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
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered to him the whole band of soldiers.
from Matthew 20:19
I will hear you, he said, when your accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
from Matthew 27:27
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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.
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
from Acts 7:51
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
from Philippians 3:3
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
from Galatians 6:13
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.
from Romans 3:9
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
from Romans 6:15
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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
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
from Acts 9:15
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
from Romans 1:5 · a strong link
So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
from Acts 6:7 · a strong link
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run freely, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
from Acts 19:20
Also praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains:
from II Thessalonians 3:1
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Isaiah 23:7 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