Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 19 in context

Scripture Focus

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 19:5-9

Biblical Context

When hope wanes, a new powerful impulse is born and roams among other powers, devouring what it seeks. It leads to desolation, capture, and the silencing of its voice.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider this as a state of consciousness, where 'she' is your current stance about lack, and the 'whelps' are beliefs you adopt in response to waiting. The 'young lion' is a heightened egoic force that roams among other lions—your familiar thoughts—seizing what you think you need and roaring until the land is emptied of belief and memory. The desolation and roaring symbolize the disruption of inner order caused by identification with changeable appearances. The capture by the nations and the king of Babylon is the moment you consent to outer circumstance ruling your inner mountains; the voice on the mountains is silenced by fear. The reading invites you to see the scene as a projection of your own consciousness, not a history of a nation. In Neville's sense, the remedy is revision: declare I AM sovereign over that land; refuse to identify with the lion as if it were you; let the inner lion be disciplined by love and truth; let the mountains ring with your true voice again. The moment you acknowledge the I AM as the source, the entire landscape shifts, and the old desolation yields to a fresh, living power within.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling that I AM is sovereign over your inner land, seeing the lion domesticated into a protective guide. Feel the mountains hear truth again as you revise the story from destruction to restoration.