1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage * is come down .
3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty : and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd .
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Re: What is your wand's name? By: Spirit76 / Novice
Post # 2 Jan 26, 2018
Hmm... Honestly I have never felt the need to name the wand I built. ... or any of my other magic-working tools. When I am in a playful mood I sometimes refer to my wand as the 'zapper', but I doubt that counts.
Kidding around aside, I suppose I know the tools for their energy and my attunement to them. So if anything the closest I have for their names is 'friend'. It is all I need and seems to serve me well.
King James Version with Apocrypha is secretly equivalent to Oxford University Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition. The normal Revised Standard Version uses Grace and Union instead of Beauty and Bands (I own a copy of Oxford University Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition).
King James Version with Apocrypha can also be found for free at:
Re: What is your wand's name? By: Lark Moderator / Adept
Post # 5 Jan 26, 2018
I don't name my tools either, but each to their own.
May I ask what the purpose of the long Biblical quotation might be? It does not seem to have anything to do with the topic of naming wands or magic in general? And I must caution you against typing words in capital letters, something against the rules of this site.
Re: What is your wand's name? By: Lark Moderator / Adept
Post # 8 Jan 27, 2018
It does indeed talk about wands and staves, and it does indeed talk about the Pharoah's magicians throwning down their staves and those staves becoming serpents in the stories of Moses and the Exodus.
We don't know whether that was literally true or not, but it certainly contained in those passages.
