1. Then Yahweh said to me, “Take yourself a large tablet and write on it with a common stylus pen: Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz.
2. And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
3. And I approached the prophetess, and she conceived, and she gave birth to a son. And Yahweh said to me, “Call his name Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz.
4. For before the boy knows to call ‘my father’ and ‘my mother,’ one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria.”
5. And Yahweh continued to speak to me again, saying,
6. “Because this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7. therefore look! The Lord is bringing up the waters of the great and mighty river against them, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And he will rise above all his channels, and he will flow over all his banks.