Hebrew is one of three languages, with Aramaic and Greek, in which God chose to record His Word, each using different words for Deity. God favors no human language over another, since every language was developed by unclean people to describe a defiled reality, and none compares with the inexpressible language Paul heard in the Third Heaven. A believer is not required to learn a certain parlance to call on God, unlike the Muslim god's demand for Arabic. Hebrew is misappropriated in this way more than Greek or Aramaic, yet the original pronunciation of God's Hebrew names cannot be known, because only consonants were preserved. God left a written record of His character and nature, not an audio recording of what He wanted to be called, so faith must rest in who and what He is rather than in guessed-at sounds. Isaiah's Jewish contemporaries likely knew how to pronounce God's names far better than anyone today, but it did them no good because their hearts were set on the wrong things. Isaiah himself spoke the same basic Hebrew words before and after his purification, but afterward they were true words arranged honestly, reflecting a different spiritual reality. Likewise, Israel's Hebrew did not reflect spiritual reality at the golden calf, where Aaron called the idol Elohim. Using a Hebrew name for God grants no favor, and so-called sacred names do not improve anyone's standing with Him.