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."