1. Then Adonai said to me: “Take yourself a great tablet, and write on it with a man’s stylus: ‘Maher-shalal-hashbaz.’”
2. So I took for myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the kohen and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
3. Then I went to the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son. Then Adonai said to me: “Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.
4. For before the child will have knowledge to cry ‘my father!’ or ‘my mother!’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
5. Then Adonai spoke to me further, saying:
6. “Because these people have refused the softly flowing waters of Shiloah, and rejoice with Rezin and Remaliah’s son,