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:

is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

LAM 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

LAM 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

LAM 4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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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:

river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

JDG 5:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

JDG 5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

JDG 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

JDG 5:25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

JDG 5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the

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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:

of the thirsty to fail.

ISA 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

ISA 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

ISA 32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

ISA 32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

ISA 32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless

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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:

me;

JOB 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

JOB 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

JOB 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

JOB 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

JOB 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

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