Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:4-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 19 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Ezekiel 19:4-9

Biblical Context

The passage follows a captive lion, taken by nations and bound, then a second whelp rising to become a lion who roams, devours, and tears at desolate cities. Enemies finally trap him and silence his voice on the mountains of Israel.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the nations as thoughts crowding your awareness; the pit and the chains are the limits you have accepted in your mind. The first lion stands for bondage—fear occupying your attention, a belief that you are powerless. Then a new whelp awakens, a rising aspect of consciousness that becomes a lion by feeding it images of strength, roaming among the other lions and learning to catch its prey. The roar may desolate the inner temples, unless the heart is rooted in the I AM. The net, the pit, and the warding at Babylon symbolize the ego’s attempts to regulate expression, while the king of Babylon marks the belief that silences your voice. Yet the inner kingdom you seek is within: by revising the belief and feeling it real, you unchain the roaring self and let your voice echo from the mountains of Israel.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the state 'I am the lion free within me,' and feel-it-real as you breathe. Revise any sense of captivity as a past dream and let your inner mountains echo with the liberated roar.