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:

he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

PRO 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

PRO 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

PRO 24:15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

PRO 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

PRO 24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart

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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:

helped me.

PSA 116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

PSA 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

PSA 116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

PSA 116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

PSA 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.

PSA 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

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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:

DEU 25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.

DEU 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

DEU 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

DEU 25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity

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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:

JER 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

JER 38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

JER 38:12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

JER 38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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