Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:1-4 - 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.

Ezekiel 19:1-4

Biblical Context

The passage laments Israel's princes, painting a lioness mother who nourishes a cub that becomes a fierce hunter. The cub is later seized by nations and taken into Egypt.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard frame, Ezekiel names the inner rulers of your mind as a lioness who nurtures a cub that grows into a fierce hunter. The lion is not a symbol of conquest but a miscreated power formed by belief that can devour when left unchecked. When the nations hear of him, that is the world of opinion and circumstance reacting to your inner state. Being taken in their pit and chained to Egypt signals a mind that has walked into bondage by fear, identity with danger, and old stories of limitation. The tragedy is not merely political; it is the inner condition your imagination has built up until it enslaves you with external conditions. The remedy is the practice of reimagining the scene from the observer's seat: you are the I AM—awareness itself—seeing the lion as a past pattern, not the real you. Assume a new state: the cub grows into a wise, controlled power that protects, serves, and governs without devouring; the exile dissolves as you revise the sense of self as free and sovereign in God.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, place a hand on your chest, and state, I AM. Then revise the scene in your imagination: the lion becomes a wise guardian, and you feel that sovereign power as real now.