The Vigil

from Jeremiah 36:19

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.

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Jeremiah 36:19

Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you be.

I Kings 17:3

Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

from Jeremiah 36:19

Psalms 83:3

They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.

from I Kings 17:3

Psalms 27:5

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

from Psalms 83:3 · a strong link


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Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

Exodus 14:4

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

from Leviticus 10:3

Exodus 9:16

And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, to show in you my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

from Exodus 14:4

Exodus 14:17

And I, look, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

from Exodus 9:16

Exodus 14:8

And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

from Exodus 14:17

Exodus 13:16

And it shall be for a token upon your hand, and for bands between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

from Exodus 14:8

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

from Exodus 13:16


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Jude 1:24

Now to him that is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

John 10:29

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

from Jude 1:24

John 6:37

All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.

from John 10:29

Psalms 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, patience, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

from Ephesians 2:4


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Jude 1:11

Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Genesis 4:3

And in process of time it happened, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD.

from Jude 1:11

Numbers 18:12

All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD, them have I given you.

from Genesis 4:3

Exodus 34:26

The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in his mother’s milk.

from Numbers 18:12

Deuteronomy 26:2

That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.

from Exodus 34:26


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Luke 2:14

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Luke 19:38

Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

from Luke 2:14 · a strong link

Mark 11:9

And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord:

from Luke 19:38

Psalms 118:25

Save now, I beg you, O LORD: O LORD, I beg you, send now prosperity.

from Mark 11:9 · a strong link


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Luke 18:7

And shall not God give justice to his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?

Galatians 6:8

For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

from Hebrews 10:35 · a strong link

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

from Galatians 6:8 · a strong link

Luke 9:59

And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

from Matthew 4:19


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Luke 14:26

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Revelation of John 12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death.

from Luke 14:26 · a strong link

Revelation of John 15:2

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

from Revelation of John 12:11

Revelation of John 22:2

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bore twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

from Revelation of John 21:21

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Jeremiah 36:19 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.

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