Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 29:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 29 in context

Scripture Focus

4But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

5And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

Ezekiel 29:4-5

Biblical Context

Ezekiel 29:4-5 describes God pulling a people from the rivers and leaving them in a wilderness, symbolizing exposure of their inner state and the consequences of attachment to external conditions.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your hooks are the stubborn beliefs that bind awareness to outward results. The fish clinging to your scales are thoughts and emotions you have allowed to define you. When you are pulled from the river, you are invited to a wilderness of perception where you rise above identification with outer circumstances. The wilderness is a sacred clearing, not punishment, where you observe your inner moves without surrendering to them. The beasts and birds are but thoughts fed by your attention; they fade as you adopt a new assumption: I am the I AM, unhooked, free, and standing in the open field of pure awareness. This inner exodus is the return you seek, for reality is fashioned by consciousness, not by external events. By realigning your state and feeling it as already true, you dissolve old bindings and enter a wholeness that was always within you.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe, and assume the state 'I am free and unhooked.' Visualize the hooks loosening from your jaws and the river releasing you into a sunlit field of awareness, feeling it real.