Today's Bibliomancy for Nick Cave

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:

Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

LUK 16:7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.

LUK 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

LUK 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

LUK 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also

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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:

feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

LUK 7:45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

LUK 7:46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.

LUK 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

LUK 7:48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

LUK 7:49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within

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The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible:

Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

KI1 8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

KI1 8:18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

KI1 8:19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible:

foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

KI1 7:10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

KI1 7:11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

KI1 7:12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

KI1 7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

KI1 7:14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father

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