Neville Goddard on Isaiah 32:9-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 32 in context

Scripture Focus

9Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

10Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

12They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Isaiah 32:9-12

Biblical Context

The passage rebukes the comfortable for complacency, foretelling trouble and a failed harvest, and it invites a posture of humility and inner readiness. It points to a turning point where inward preparedness, not outward security, determines fruitfulness.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM within, these lines read as a diagnosis of your inner weather. The 'women at ease' are inner states of complacency, the belief that life’s abundance comes from outward security. When the inner vintage falters—your habitual stories, fears, and rituals fail to nourish your feeling—the outer world mirrors drought. The command to 'strip you, and gird sackcloth' is a call to strip away egoic coverings and clothe yourself with humility, disciplined attention, and a new dream. The lament for teats and fields signals the withdrawal of inner nourishment from a mind that has forgotten its role as creator. Return to the imagination as the soil of reality; assume the state of I AM now, revise your inner picture, and feel it real that you already possess the harvest you seek. In this reorientation, seeming calamity becomes revelation: you hold the power to awaken a continual harvest by your conscious awareness.

Practice This Now

Practice: Sit quietly, breathe, and assume the state 'I AM awake now.' Visualize a field blooming in your inner landscape and feel the sensation of harvest as already yours, then carry this feeling into the day.