The Lord’s Answer

² Then the Lord replied:

Isaiah and His Children as Signs

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

²² So Moses wrote^(A) down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

⁶⁰ Jeremiah had written on a scroll^(A) about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon.

²⁸ “Take another scroll^(A) and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up. ²⁹ Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned that scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it^(B) both man and beast?”^{(C) 30} Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim^(D) king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out^(E) and exposed^(F) to the heat by day and the frost by night.^{(G) 31} I will punish him and his children^(H) and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster^(I) I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.^(J)’”

³² So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated,^(K) Baruch wrote^(L) on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned^(M) in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

² “Take a scroll^(A) and write on it all the words^(B) I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah^(C) till now.

¹⁹ “Now write^(A) down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness^(B) for me against them.