1 The Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it in ordinary letters, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2 Summon trusted people, Uriah the priest and Zechariah, Jeberechiah’s son, to witness it."
3 I then had sex with the prophetess, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4 Before the boy knows how to say ‘my father’ and ‘my mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."
5 The Lord spoke again to me:
6 Since this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and instead rejoices over Rezin and Remaliah’s son—