Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 19:9-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 19 in context

Scripture Focus

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 19:9-14

Biblical Context

Israel's royal line is likened to a vine uprooted and cast into exile. Its power is broken, and it stands in a dry wilderness, a lament.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the chapter as a map of your own consciousness. The royal vine cast into ward and holds is your belief that life comes from without, that some outside king governs your days. The mother, a vine nourished by waters, stands for the life of awareness within you. When the east wind dries her fruit and the rods break, you are simply seeing the edges of your old identity fall away under the pressure of a larger truth: you are not ruled by appearances but by the I AM you awaken to. The exile into the wilderness is a clearing, a desert where you learn to listen for the living water of perception rather than the weather of circumstance. The lamentation is a turning of attention from external power to inner authority. You can revise by imaginally replanting, renaming your state, and declaring, I am the vine of consciousness, sustained by the waters of awareness. In that moment, the fire and the dryness become signals of renewal, not punishment.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the vine of your life being watered by streams of inner awareness. Revise by declaring I am the vine of consciousness, sustained by the waters of awareness, and feel the vitality returning.