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:

for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

SA2 14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

SA2 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

SA2 14:3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

SA2 14:4 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

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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:

art the helper of the fatherless.

PSA 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

PSA 10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

PSA 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

PSA 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

PSA 11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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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:

shall leave them neither root nor branch.

MAL 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

MAL 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

MAL 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

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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:

told him not that he fled.

GEN 31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

GEN 31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

GEN 31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

GEN 31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

GEN 31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

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