Plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, ([Isa. 8:1-3](/isa#Isa.8.1); comp. [Zeph. 1:14](/zeph#Zeph.1.14)), a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a son that was to be born to him ([Isa. 8:1](/isa#Isa.8.1), [3](/isa#Isa.8.3)), as denoting the sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army.