Today's Bibliomancy for Bob Dylan

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:

I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

PSA 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

PSA 35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

PSA 35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

PSA 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

PSA 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

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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:

are therein?

GEN 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

GEN 18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

GEN 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

GEN 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find

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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:

be unto his brethren.

GEN 9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

GEN 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

GEN 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

GEN 9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

GEN 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

GEN 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,

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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:

PHI 1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

PHI 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

PHI 1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

PHI 1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

PHI 1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

PHI 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear

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