Neville Goddard on Isaiah 18:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 18 in context

Scripture Focus

4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

Isaiah 18:4-5

Biblical Context

Isaiah 18:4–5 speaks of God resting and examining, likening divine care to a warming heat and dew that prepare the field; before harvest, pruning removes growth not fit for the harvest.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this moment the verse reveals the Lord, the I AM within you, resting in your dwelling place and watching the inner garden as a clear heat rests upon herbs and a cloud of dew settles on the harvest. The rest is not absence but alignment—an inner stillness in which attention becomes heat and moisture, clarifying what is conceived and what must be released. Before the harvest, the bud ripens and the grape blushes; in that prelude, the sprigs and branches of limitation are pruned away with hooks that serve as discernment, not punishment. As you dwell in that I AM, you become aware of the thoughts and beliefs that hinder fruitful manifestation. The pruning is symbolic; it is the revision of belief, canceling the old idea that you are separate from abundance. By allowing this inner pruning, the new growth of your desires is freed to mature and be harvested in your experience.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the state 'I AM Resting in God' and feel the inner heat settling on your mind's garden; revise a single limiting belief as already pruned away, then observe the sense of harvest unfolding.