Today's Bibliomancy for Colin Powell

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:

thereof.

PSA 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

PSA 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

PSA 49:1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

PSA 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

PSA 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

PSA 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark

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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:

JER 51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

JER 51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

JER 52:1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

JER 52:2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

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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:

than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

SA1 19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

SA1 19:2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

SA1 19:3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.

SA1 19:4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and

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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 very heavy there.

SA1 5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

SA1 6:1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

SA1 6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

SA1 6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not

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