Hosea 4:1-3 Inner Covenant Healing

Hosea 4:1-3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Hosea 4 in context

Scripture Focus

1Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Hosea 4:1-3

Biblical Context

Hosea 4:1-3 declares that the people have abandoned truth, mercy, and knowledge of God, causing the land to mourn. It links collective judgment to the inner condition of the heart.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner world is the land; when you live in a state of truthlessness—the habitual swearing against your true nature, the lies you tell yourself about what you are, the acts born of fear—the inner stream dries, and your world begins to languish. The LORD's controversy with the inhabitants of the land is the clash between an unawakened self and its higher awareness. Truth, mercy, and knowledge of God are not outward rituals but living conditions of consciousness. When these three are absent, the inner life bleeds, and the land mourns; your intuition falters, and the outer signs follow. So this passage invites you to awaken from the dream by changing your assumption. To reverse this, assume a new state: I AM the truth I seek; I dwell in mercy; I know God within. Revise any sense of separation by feeling it real that the covenant is intact now. As you persist in this feeling, the land-bewilderment yields, the sea and beasts return to you, and your life reflects the restored order of your inner knowing.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: sit quietly, assume the state I AM truth, mercy, and knowledge within me, and feel it real now. Then revise any sense of lack by declaring the covenant is mine in this moment.

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