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:

this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

DEU 1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

DEU 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

DEU 1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

DEU 1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

DEU 1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over

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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:

have kept thy word.

JOH 17:7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

JOH 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

JOH 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

JOH 17:10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

JOH 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the

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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:

ECC 10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

ECC 10:6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

ECC 10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

ECC 10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

ECC 10:9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

ECC 10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

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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:

curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

ISA 54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

ISA 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

ISA 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth

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