Today's Bibliomancy for Eddie Murphy

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:

PSA 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

PSA 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

PSA 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

PSA 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

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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:

the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

JER 26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

JER 26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.

JER 26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath

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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:

PSA 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

PSA 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

PSA 89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

PSA 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

PSA 89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

PSA 89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth

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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:

the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.

CH2 30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

CH2 30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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