Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:1-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 19 in context

Scripture Focus

1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

14And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Ezekiel 19:1-14

Biblical Context

The passage laments Israel’s rulers, using lion imagery to show how power and lineage can become prideful and destructive, leading to capture, exile, and desolation. It implies that true rule comes from an inner state, not outward show.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the figures are states of your own consciousness. The mother lioness stands for a state that thinks leadership is built from force and position, nourishing whelps on the energy of the world’s appetites. The young lion that devours men is your belief in separate power—an identity you have trained to feed on success, praise, or control. When nations hear of him and he is led away to Egypt, that is your outer world acting as a mirror: your inner images are captured by external circumstances, and your voice is silenced on the mountains of Israel. The vine rooted by waters is your living supply—the creative vitality available when your awareness is drawn to the currents of imagination and feeling. Yet the wind of fury and the fire devouring the branches show how a mind that lives by force or fear burns out its own strength and abandons its rightful throne. Now you are cast into the wilderness, a dry, thirsty ground—an invitation to revise. So you return to the I AM, the true king within, and revise the scene: let the inner ruler be established, the old whelp folded back into a harmless image, and the kingdom of consciousness restored. In this inward dawn, the outward rule follows.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume, right now, 'I AM the king of my inner land.' Visualize a vine planted by waters in your blood, with your awareness ruling peacefully, and feel the old roar melt into stillness.