Neville Goddard on Isaiah 28:9-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 28 in context

Scripture Focus

9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

12To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:9-14

Biblical Context

The passage asks who will be taught knowledge and how; it presents an inner method of learning—precept upon precept—while warning that the people, like rulers, would not hear.

Neville's Inner Vision

Whom shall the Lord teach knowledge? to those who are weaned from the milk of limitation and drawn from the breasts of fear. The holy method is not clever argument but a daily inner revision: precept upon precept, line upon line, until the scattered mind returns to rest in the I AM. The 'stammering lips' symbolize the old speech of worry; to change it you must embrace a larger word—the rest and refreshing of the Lord—the unshakable awareness that you are already as you wish to be. The warning that they would not hear is your cue to realize you have been listening to appearances rather than your true Source. Let the inner teacher speak through you by dwelling in the present I AM, and allow the weariness to melt into stillness. When you choose that rest, the outward world aligns by its own inward arrangement, and the ‘that you might go, and fall backward’ becomes a gentle tipping into faith rather than fear.