Neville Goddard on Isaiah 19:5-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 19 in context

Scripture Focus

5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

9Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

11Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

12Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

14The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Isaiah 19:5-14

Biblical Context

Egypt's waters fail and its leaders are confounded, signaling that external powers cannot save the land. The passage ends by exposing folly and inviting a deeper, inner awakening to the LORD's purposes.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this oracle, the dry riverbeds are the stagnant streams of belief in your own kingdom; your 'Egypt' is the state of consciousness clinging to seas and channels as if they could secure you. When the rivers dry, your defenses are emptied, and the reeds wither—this is your mind's old distractions dissolving under the light of I AM. The 'princes of Zoan' and the 'counselors of Pharaoh' are your inner voices that say I know by outward wisdom, which Neville would call the outer man. The LORD casting a perverse spirit is the stirring of biased habits—doubt, fear, pride—that cause you to err in every activity as a drunken mind errs in vomit. This is not punishment but a purifying rearrangement, a preparation for a higher alignment: you are not a victim of the world but the I AM aware of it, and your awareness now reorders from dependence on external sources to inner sovereign power. In this moment, the messengers of the Nile become signs that your inner government is realigning to truth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the state I AM now, declaring that outward powers are not my source. Revise the belief and feel it real by visualizing a clear inner river flowing from the center of your being.