Neville Goddard on Isaiah 26:16-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 26 in context

Scripture Focus

16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

17Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

18We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Isaiah 26:16-18

Biblical Context

The passage shows people crying to God in trouble, likening their struggle to painful childbirth, confessing they have labored without producing deliverance or change on earth.

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah 26:16-18 invites you to see trouble as the soul's labor rather than external failure. The cry in chastening is a movement within consciousness, not a plea to change the weather of circumstance. The birth-pains metaphor shows the old state of effort producing wind only and waiting on a future shift. In Neville's terms, you are the I AM, and the world is a projection of your inner state. The people lament that deliverance has not come through earthly means; therefore, you must stop relying on outward outcomes and begin assuming the state you wish to live. Close your eyes, breathe, and declare from the depth of your being that deliverance is already complete in you. Feel the wind of change as you would feel a newborn's first breath, but know that the 'breath' is your awareness shifting. When you entertain the feeling of the already-delivered, the outer world will fall into line with your inner state. The key is not more prayer as petition but more conviction as acknowledged reality.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine you already stand in deliverance. Feel the acknowledged reality: I am delivered now, and let that certainty reshape your inner state and your world.