1And Yahweh said unto me: Take thee a large tablet,and write thereon in plain characters, To Maher-shalal-hash-baz. "Speed-spoil-hurry-prey". 2That I may take in attestation, faithful witnesses,even Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah. 3Then approached I unto the prophetess, and she conceived and bare a son,and Yahweh said unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4For before the boy shall have knowledge to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria. 5And again Yahweh spake unto me yet further saying: 6Because this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah which flow softly,and are rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7now therefore, lo! the Lord is about to bring up against them the waters, strong and many, of the River, even the king of Assyria and all his glory,and he shall rise over all his channels, and flow over all his banks; \fs15 8and roll on throughout Judahoverflow and pass along, till unto the neck, he shall reach,and it shall be, that, the stretching out of his wings, shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel! 9Rage, O ye peoples,and be overthrown, And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth,Gird yourselves and be overthrown, Gird yourselves, and be overthrown: 10Determine a plan,and it shall be frustrated,Speak a word, and it shall not stand, For With-us-is-GOD! 11For, thus, spake Yahweh unto me like a firm grasp of the hand,when he admonished me, not to walk in the way of this people, saying: 12Ye shall not sayA confederacy! of everything of which this people may say. A confederacy! And their fear, shall ye not fear or regard as awful: 13Yahweh of hosts, him, shall ye hallow,And let, him, be your fear, and let, him inspire you with awe; 14So shall he become a hallowed asylum,But a stone to strike against, and a rock to stumble over unto both houses of Israel A trap and a snare to the dweller in Jerusalem; 15And many, shall stumble among them,and fall and be torn, and snared, and captured. 16Bind thou up the testimony,Seal the instruction amongst my disciples. 17I will therefore long for Yahweh, Who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob,And will wait, for him. 18Lo! I and the children whom Yahweh hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel,from Yahweh of hosts, who is making his habitation in Mount Zion. 19But, when they say unto youSeek ye unto the necromancers and unto the wizards, who chirp, and who mutter, Should not u people seek, unto its God? In behalf of the living, unto the dead? 20To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, , because they have no dawning day. 21Therefore shall they pass through it hard pressed and hungry,And it shall be when they hunger, then will they rage and revile their king and their god and turn their faces upwards; 22And unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!