Today's Bibliomancy for Nellie McKay

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:

banished.

SA2 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

SA2 14:15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

SA2 14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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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:

my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

SON 6:1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

SON 6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

SON 6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

SON 6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

SON 6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

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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:

place where they laid him.

MAR 16:7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

MAR 16:8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

MAR 16:9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

MAR 16:10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

MAR 16:11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been

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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:

LAM 3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

LAM 3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

LAM 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

LAM 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

LAM 3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

LAM 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

LAM 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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