Neville Goddard on Isaiah 27:7-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 27 in context

Scripture Focus

7Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

Isaiah 27:7-12

Biblical Context

The passage describes Israel's experience of divine judgment that purges sin and idols, leaving a desolate place that is later gathered back into unity with God.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this scripture you are the one who experiences the smiting and the stilling of winds within. The idols—the groves, images, altars—represent beliefs you have worshiped outside your own awareness. The chalk-like altar stones are your fixed ideas being softened by a deeper consciousness. The desolate city and the calf in the fields signal a mind forced to relinquish defense mechanisms and false identities. Yet this wilderness is not punishment but a womb: a purifying process by which the sense of separation dissolves. The final command to be gathered, one by one, echoes your true I AM returning to unity with itself. When you accept that God, the I AM within, governs your inner weather, the purge becomes gentle restoration, and your inner Israel is restored to wholeness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit in stillness, declare I AM Israel in me. Visualize idols and altars dissolving into chalk, and feel the inner city of your mind becoming a single, gathered home.