Today's Bibliomancy for Stephen Colbert

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:

that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

PRO 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

PRO 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

PRO 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

PRO 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

PRO 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

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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:

south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

JER 33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

JER 33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;

JER 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

JER 33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

JER 33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them

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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:

NUM 30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

NUM 30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

NUM 30:15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

NUM 30:16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.

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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:

be none.

EZE 7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

EZE 7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

EZE 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

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