Isaiah 8:1-3

Contemporary English Version

A Warning and a Hope

8 The Lord said, “Isaiah, get something to write on. Then write in big clear letters^[a] the name, MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ.^{[b] 2} I will tell Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah to serve as witnesses to this.”

³ Sometime later, my wife and I had a son, and the Lord said, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.