Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 4:9-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 4 in context

Scripture Focus

9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

11Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

13And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

14Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

15Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

Biblical Context

Ezekiel is told to eat a ration of mixed grains baked with defilement, a sign of Israel’s exile and hardship; the passage foregrounds scarcity, judgment, and the breakdown of ordinary supply.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the vision, the bread by weight and water by measure mirror a disciplined mind training itself to feed only what it approves in consciousness. The outer image of galling food and dung is not literal but a symbolic injunction: when you are driven into a 'siege' of circumstance, you are invited to become the master of your inner appetite. The I AM behind Ezekiel speaks: you will eat what you believe you deserve, you will drink what you have decreed. The breaking of the staff of bread signifies the collapse of old supports, not punishment, but an opportunity to lean wholly on the inner supply of God, the I AM that you are. By renaming defiled bread as fuel for transformation—recognizing the lower self’s residue yet not resisting it—you empower your imagination to transmute sensation into holiness. The astonishment and exile become inner barometers, revealing what must be released and what may be claimed by faith. You stand free when you accept your state as a present I AM and reorganize every appetite to fit that truth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and declare, I AM the bread of life; I measure my thoughts and feed only what I affirm as true. Then imagine the old defiled bread being transmuted by your I AM into pure nourishment, feeling the change as real.