“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.