Isaiah 8:3
Good News Translation
Some time later my wife became pregnant. When our son was born, the LORD said to me, "Name him 'Quick-Loot-Fast-Plunder.'

New Revised Standard Version
And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

Contemporary English Version
Sometime later, my wife and I had a son, and the LORD said, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

New American Bible
Then I went to the prophetess and she conceived and bore a son. The LORD said to me: Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey.

went.

Judges 4:4 And there was at that time Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, who judged the people.

2 Kings 22:14 So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Sapham, and Asaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of Thecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in Jerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her.

she conceived

Hosea 1:3-9 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceived, and bore him a son. . . .

Call his name

Isaiah 7:13,14 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also? . . .

Maher-shalal-hash-baz

Isaiah 8:1 And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.

Context
Assyrian Invasion Prophesied
2And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias. 3And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey.4For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians.…
Cross References
Isaiah 8:1
And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.

Jeremiah 20:3
And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. And Jeremiah said to him: The Lord hath not called thy name Phassur, but fear on every side.

Isaiah 8:2
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