Working on a presentation about madness, mysticism and the emotional cost of both. Looking up some of the prophets who really were persecuted. This is from Jeremiah, who had been put in the stocks.
It appears that people have always tried to bring down those who try to tell the truth, or be the reformer.
For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For( the word of the LORD has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long.
9If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
andI am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
For I hear many whispering.
Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
say all my close friends,
watching for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then we can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.
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