Today's Bibliomancy for Nick Cave

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:

round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

JDG 20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

JDG 20:7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

JDG 20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

JDG 20:9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

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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:

shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

MAT 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.

MAT 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

MAT 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

MAT 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

MAT 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun

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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:

SA2 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

SA2 21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

SA2 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

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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:

trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

JOE 1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

JOE 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

JOE 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

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