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:

beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

EXO 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

EXO 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

EXO 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

EXO 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

EXO 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

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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:

sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

EZE 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

EZE 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

EZE 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

EZE 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

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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:

hast the words of eternal life.

JOH 6:69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

JOH 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

JOH 6:71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

JOH 7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

JOH 7:2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.

JOH 7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into

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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:

was as to devour the poor secretly.

HAB 3:15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

HAB 3:16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

HAB 3:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

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