Today's Bibliomancy for Stephen Colbert

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:

healing by the same Spirit;

CO1 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

CO1 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

CO1 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

CO1 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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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:

very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

EXO 9:19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

EXO 9:20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

EXO 9:21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

EXO 9:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward

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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:

run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

JER 50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

JER 50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

JER 51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against

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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:

resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

NEH 4:21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

NEH 4:22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

NEH 4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

NEH 5:1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

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