Neville Goddard on Isaiah 10:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 10 in context

Scripture Focus

1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 10:1-4

Biblical Context

Isaiah 10:1-4 warns that oppressive decrees harm the vulnerable, and the day of visitation exposes the futility of seeking help outside the self. It shows that without divine awareness the mind remains enslaved to its own prison.

Neville's Inner Vision

What Isaiah calls woe is the voice of your own divided mind when you decree for others what you would not permit in yourself. The unrighteous decrees are not out there in some distant court; they are inner states you have allowed to harden into rule. When you turn away the needy from judgment, you are turning away a portion of your own awareness from its rightful place, and the widow, the fatherless, and the poor become projections of neglected parts of you. The day of visitation is the moment your attention attends to the inner truth you have denied—the desolation you fear from afar is your own belief in separation dissolving into unity. To whom will you flee for help? If you seek it outside your I AM, you remain dependent; but the hand stretched out is the living presence within, inviting you to revise. Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners means when you forget the source of your power, you entrap yourself in mental prisons. Begin now: assume the inner state of justice here and now, and let imagination align the outer scene with your true consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In the next 5 minutes, assume the I AM as the ruler of your inner court and revise one unjust decree into a just outcome. Feel that renewal as already real.