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:

understanding heart.

PRO 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

PRO 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

PRO 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

PRO 8:9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

PRO 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

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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:

sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

NUM 23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

NUM 23:8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

NUM 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

NUM 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last

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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:

KI1 13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

KI1 13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

KI1 13:18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

KI1 13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

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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:

would do.

JOH 6:7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

JOH 6:8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,

JOH 6:9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

JOH 6:10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

JOH 6:11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set

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