1. O thou wrapped up in thy raiment!

2. Keep vigil the night long, save a little -

3. A half thereof, or abate a little thereof

4. Or add a little thereto - and chant the record in measure,

5. For we shall charge thee with a word of weight.

6. Lo! the vigil of the night is a time when impression is more keen and speech more certain.

7. Lo! thou hast by day a chain of business.

8. So remember the name of thy Lord and devote thyself with a complete devotion -

9. Lord of the East and the West; there is no God save Him; so choose thou Him alone for thy defender -

10. And bear with patience what they utter, and part from them with a fair leave- taking.

11. Leave Me to deal with the deniers, lords of ease and comfort in this life; and do thou respite them awhile.

12. Lo! with Us are heavy fetters and a raging fire,

13. And food which choketh the partaker, and a painful doom

14. On the day when the earth and the hills rock, and the hills become a heap of running sand.

15. Lo! We have sent unto you a messenger as witness against you, even as We sent unto Pharaoh a messenger.

16. But Pharaoh rebelled against the messenger, whereupon We seized him with no gentle grip.

17. Then how, if ye disbelieve, will ye protect yourselves upon the day which will turn children grey,

18. The very heaven being then rent asunder. His promise is to be fulfilled.

19. Lo! This is a Reminder. Let him who will, then, choose a way unto his Lord.

20. Lo! thy Lord knoweth how thou keepest vigil sometimes nearly two-thirds of the night, or sometimes half or a third thereof, as do a party of those with thee. God measureth the night and the day. He knoweth that ye count it not, and turneth unto you in mercy. Recite, then, of the record that which is easy for you. He knoweth that there are sick folk among you, while others travel in the land in search of God's bounty, and others still are fighting for the cause of God. So recite of it that which is easy for you, and establish worship and pay the poor-due, and so lend unto God a goodly loan. Whatsoever good ye send before you for your souls, ye will find it with God, better and greater in the recompense. And seek forgiveness of God. Lo! God is Forgiving, Merciful.

About this reader

What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

Licensing

The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

Deep Linking

Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

Accessibility

Scripture supports keyboard navigation throughout: Tab moves between controls, Enter activates verse actions, and arrow keys navigate chapters. The reading pane has a skip-to-content link. All overlays (search, concordance) are focus-trapped ARIA dialogs. Dynamic content regions use aria-live for screen reader announcements. Light and dark themes are available through the theme toggle. Verse numbers are visible to assistive technology. No flashing content or motion hazards.

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