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My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.
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.
My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.
from Psalms 6:7
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
from Psalms 38:10
My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
from Psalms 69:3
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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.
I was mute, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
from Leviticus 10:3
And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD has said to him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Why have you done so?
from Psalms 39:9
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
from II Samuel 16:10
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
from II Samuel 3:39
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
from Psalms 28:4 · a strong link
Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
from II Timothy 4:14
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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,
Now to him that is able to do immeasurably more than all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
from Jude 1:24 · a strong link
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, patience, and abundant in goodness and truth,
from Ephesians 3:20 · a strong link
I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving devotion and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.
from Exodus 34:6 · a strong link
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.
from Psalms 138:2
Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
from Psalms 28:2 · a strong link
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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.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
from Jude 1:11
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
from Revelation of John 2:14 · a strong link
And now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
from Joshua 24:9
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Acacia to Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.
from Judges 11:25
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
from Luke 2:14
Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
from Isaiah 9:6
His glory is great in your salvation: honor and majesty have you laid upon him.
from Psalms 45:3
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And shall not God give justice to his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great reward.
from Luke 18:7
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
from Hebrews 10:35 · a strong link
But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.
from Hebrews 3:6
And you shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
from Matthew 24:13 · a strong link
Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
from Matthew 10:22 · a strong link
And he said to me, To two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
from Daniel 12:12
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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.
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
Since therefore the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
from Hebrews 2:14
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
from Revelation of John 20:2 · a strong link
And shall go out to deceive the nations in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
from Revelation of John 12:9 · a strong link
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 6:7 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.
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