Today's Bibliomancy for Michael York

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:

preserved my spirit.

JOB 10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

JOB 10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

JOB 10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

JOB 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

JOB 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine

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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:

a cord which thou lettest down?

JOB 41:2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

JOB 41:3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

JOB 41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

JOB 41:5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

JOB 41:6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

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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:

vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.

JER 48:39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

JER 48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

JER 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

JER 48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

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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:

to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

ACT 7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

ACT 7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

ACT 7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

ACT 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

ACT 7:28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

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