Jeremiah 20:10
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
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Jeremiah's complaint 'I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side…all my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him' provides the most psychologically intimate account of prophetic persecution in the Old Testament. The phrase 'fear on every side' (magor missabib) is Jeremiah's own characteristic doom-oracle (6:25; 20:3-4) now turned back against him — he has become the embodiment of the judgment he pronounced. 'My familiars' (anshei shelomi, men of my peace — close friends) watching for his stumbling creates the betrayal-of-intimates motif that Psalm 41:9 ('yea, mine own familiar friend…hath lifted up his heel against me') and John 13:18 apply to Judas. The verse gave the Reformation its language for describing the isolation of prophetic witness in a hostile culture — Luther frequently identified with the Jeremianic vocation of announced-judgment and communal rejection.
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For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear <FI>is<Fi> round about: `Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching <FI>for<Fi> my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'
For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
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