| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
JER 51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
JER 51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have
burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
JER 51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her:
yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
JER 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath
crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up
like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: the remembrance of them from the earth.
PSA 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them
out of all their troubles.
PSA 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and
saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
PSA 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
delivereth him out of them all.
PSA 34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
PSA 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
shall be desolate.
PSA 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
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