Neville Goddard on Isaiah 18:4-7 - 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.

6They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

Isaiah 18:4-7

Biblical Context

Isaiah 18:4-7 presents God resting and weighing like heat and dew, followed by pruning before the harvest. It shows exile and judgment as preparation for a renewed people returning to Zion.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the Lord of hosts is the I AM that remembers itself as you. The rest spoken of is not inactivity but the sense of still consciousness that holds all motion. The heat on the herbs is the focused attention that warms your desires until they break into clarity; the dew in harvest is grace cooling the mind as it moves toward fulfillment. When the bud is perfect and the sour grape ripens, you prune the sprigs of limitation and cut away the branches of doubt. These prunings are not punishment but revision of your inner state; left to the fowls and beasts merely show which old patterns no longer serve your life. In that time, the present is brought to the I AM, to Zion—the place in you where you witness and inhabit your true nature. Remember: you are the ruler of your inner landscape; your faith becomes form as you imagine and dwell in it.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume I AM is resting within you. Prune one limitation with a soft mental cut, then feel the harvest ripen as the present becomes Zion.