Neville Goddard on Isaiah 16:8-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 16 in context

Scripture Focus

8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

9Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

Isaiah 16:8-10

Biblical Context

The fields of Heshbon languish; the vine of Sibmah is broken and harvest is silenced. Joy and singing vanish from the plentiful field.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this oracle the fields are not fields at all but the contents of your own consciousness. The languish and the broken vines signify a moment when your attention has wandered from the source of life, the I AM. The sound of harvest is the memory that you have forgotten your own power to conceive. When you insist and imagine that the fields are still fruitful, you align with the reality that already exists as your unseen state. The tears spoken are not sorrow in the world, but the release of the old belief that absence governs your life. I am the one who waters with tears, tears of insistence, tenderness, and attention, until the branches bend toward you again and the wine presses flow. The lords of the heathen are your doubts and distractions; the wilderness is your restless mind. Yet the verse crowns you: joy returns as you choose to inhabit the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Your present experience is a reverberation of the inner decision. When you dwell in the I AM, the vintage shouts its joy even in seeming drought.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, 'I AM the field of abundance now.' See the vines recover in your inner sight, hear the harvest's cheer, and feel the joy as your state shifts back to fullness.