There is no one to guide you out of all the children she bore, no one to take her by the hand out of all the children she brought up.

After this, I was intimate with the prophetess and she conceived. Later, she bore a son, and then the LORD told me, "Call him "Maher-shalal-hash-baz,'

Who has ever heard of such a thing? And who ever sees such things? Can a country be born in a single day, or can a nation be brought forth in a single moment? Yet no sooner was Zion in labor than she delivered her children.

"Before she goes into labor she gives birth; before her pains come upon her she has delivered a son.