Inner Walls in the Valley of Vision
Isaiah 22:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 22 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Isaiah 22:4-5 portrays a lament over the spoiling of the people and a day of trouble where walls fall in the valley of vision, with cries to the mountains. The passage centers on an inner process, not just external events.
Neville's Inner Vision
Read as Neville would, the cry in Isaiah is not a mere national lament but the cry of the inner self waking to its own state. “Look away from me” becomes the instruction of consciousness to withdraw attention from the outer story and enter the I AM that perceives it all. The day of trouble, the walls breaking down, and the valley of vision are the interior weather of belief being dissolved. The ‘daughter of my people’ points to the living ideas I am attached to—the stories I tell about myself, the identities I defend, the security I seek in form. When I refuse comfort, I am not refusing love, but refusing to let an old dream run my life. The turmoil is a revision, the perplexity a prompt to imagine a new scene in which the walls stand not as barriers but as doors opening into a more spacious consciousness. The mountains cry out not for alarm but for acknowledgment: the mountains are the steadfast I AM within, listening, ready to respond to your assumption that all is already done.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the I AM is the unshakable you. Feel the walls dissolving as the inner mountains rise to establish a new, peaceful vision.
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