1. Then the lord said to me, “Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.”
2. I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, both known as honest men, to witness my doing this.
3. Then I slept with my wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. And the lord said, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4. For before this child is old enough to say ‘Papa’ or ‘Mama,’ the king of Assyria will carry away both the abundance of Damascus and the riches of Samaria.”