Hearing is an instrument of vagueness,
but also of interruption, miscommunication: 'And the word of the Lord shall be
for them ṣaw leṣaw qaw leqaw, a little here, a
little there, in order that they should go, and stumble backwards, and be
broken, and ensnared, and taken (28.13) (Francis Landy, "Vision and Voice
in Isaiah," Beauty and the Enigma And Other Essays on the Hebrew Bible
[Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 312; Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 2001], 375)