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:

the heart.

PSA 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

PSA 44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

PSA 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

PSA 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

PSA 44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

PSA 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things

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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:

thereof die in the ground;

JOB 14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

JOB 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

JOB 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

JOB 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

JOB 14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a

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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:

LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

DEU 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

DEU 11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

DEU 11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

DEU 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and

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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:

lie not.

GAL 1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

GAL 1:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

GAL 1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

GAL 1:24 And they glorified God in me.

GAL 2:1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

GAL 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which

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