Isaiah 8:1-3

The Voice

8 The Eternal told me to take a large tablet and write—“Swift the Spoils of War and Speedy Comes the Attacker”— ² and to get believable witnesses, both the priest Uriah and Zechariah (Jeberechiah’s son), to watch me do it. ³ I approached the prophetess—a woman who, like me, speaks for God—and she became pregnant and had a son, whom the Eternal said I should name Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Swift-the-Spoils-of-War-and-Speedy-Comes-the-Attacker);