Isaiah and His Children as Signs

The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll(A) and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”[a](B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil; also in verse 3.

Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

Read full chapter

Go now, write it on a tablet(A) for them,
    inscribe it on a scroll,(B)
that for the days to come
    it may be an everlasting witness.(C)

Read full chapter

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

Read full chapter

The Lord’s Answer

Then the Lord replied:

“Write(A) down the revelation
    and make it plain on tablets
    so that a herald[a] may run with it.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:2 Or so that whoever reads it

And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Read full chapter