Neville Goddard on Hosea 9:1-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 9 in context

Scripture Focus

1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

3They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Hosea 9:1-17

Biblical Context

Israel represents a state of consciousness that forgets its divine source, leading to judgment-like hardship; the passage calls for a return to the I AM within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel is not a nation apart but a state of consciousness, a being that calls itself I AM and wanders from its Source when it craves outer rewards. To say thou hast gone a whoring from thy God is to speak of a belief that the I AM can be satisfied by corn, wine, and appearances; the floor, the winepress, and the new wine fail because they are seen as nourishment separate from God. Yet the prophet's condemnation is not punishment by a stern God but a wake-up call from within: your watchman is the I AM who sees when you have forgotten itself. When the days of visitation come, you discover that the exile is a correction of thought, not a demolition of you. The cure is a revision—an assumption that you are already in the LORD's land, watered by divine presence. Then imagination rearranges your world so the symbols feed you instead of robbing you. In that inward decision, the outer world mirrors your restored alignment; judgment dissolves, and you awaken to the home you never truly left—the consciousness of God within.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume you are already in the LORD's land; feel the I AM nourishing you. Repeat: I AM in God, and God is all in all, until that feeling is real.