Moreover the Lord said to me, Take a great roll, and write on it with a common pen, The spoil speeds; the prey hastens.

And I took to myself faithful witnesses namely Uriyya the priest, and Zekharyahu the son of Yeverekhyahu.

And I came near to the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, call his name Maher-shalal-ĥash-baz (the spoil speeds; the prey hastens).

For before the child shall know how to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Dammeseq and the spoil of Shomeron shall be taken away before the king of Ashshur.

And the Lord spoke to me again, saying,

Since this people refuses the water of Shiloaĥ that go softly, and rejoices in Reżin and the son of Remalyahu.

Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and abundant, namely the king of Ashshur, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

and he shall sweep through Yehuda; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O ῾Immanu᾽el.

Be broken up you peoples, and be dismayed; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and warned me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

Say not, it is a conspiracy, to all of which this people shall say, call a conspiracy; neither hear their fear, nor be afraid.

Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Yisra᾽el, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Bind up the testimony, seal the Tora among my disciples.

And I will wait upon the Lord, that hides his face from the house of Ya῾aqov, and I will hope for him.

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for portents in Yisra᾽el from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Żiyyon.

And when they shall say to you, Consult the mediums, and the wizards that chirp, and that mutter: shall not a people seek their God? why seek the living among the dead,

for Tora and for testimony? Surely they will speak according to this word which has no profit in it.

And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

For there is no weariness to him that is set against her; at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zevulun, and the land of Naftali and afterwards he afflicted her more grievously by the way of the sea, beyond the Yarden in the Galil of the nations.