Neville Goddard on Isaiah 15:1-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 15 in context

Scripture Focus

1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.

9For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

Isaiah 15:1-9

Biblical Context

The passage depicts Moab's night of ruin and lament, a symbolic collapse of a fortified state. It suggests the inner cause of suffering is attachment and fear in consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Moab is not a foreign land but a state of consciousness clinging to wealth, pride, and the illusion of safety. The night that lays Moab waste is the mind’s belief that life depends on outward props, so the heart is stripped to its rawness. When streets are girded with sackcloth and every beard is cut, the scene becomes a mirror of the ego’s exposure to change. Yet this exposure is invitation, not final judgment. In Neville’s terms, the drying waters and the cry of Nimrim announce the surrender of old stories that no longer serve. If I identify with Moab’s fear, I suffer; if I identify with the I AM within, fear is converted into confident presence. The cry becomes a call to revise: return attention to the life that animates all and to the assumption that I am the unlimited awareness expressing as this world. The remnant is not scarcity but faith awakened; I am not a ruined land but the consciousness that makes all things new.