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Again the Lord sent me a message: “Make a large signboard and write on it the birth announcement of the son I am going to give you. Use capital letters! His name will be Maher-shalal-hash-baz, which means ‘Your enemies will soon be destroyed.’”[a] I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, both known as honest men, to watch me as I wrote so they could testify that I had written it before the child was even on the way.[b] Then I had sexual intercourse with my wife and she conceived and bore me a son. And the Lord said, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:1 Your enemies will soon be destroyed, literally, “Plundering and despoiling [will] come quickly.”
  2. Isaiah 8:2 before the child was even on the way, implied.

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