Isaiah 8:2-4

The Voice

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); ⁴ because before he is old enough to say “My father” or “My mother” the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carted off to become the property of their enemy, the king of Assyria.