Neville Goddard on Isaiah 33:17-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 33 in context

Scripture Focus

17Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

18Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

19Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

Isaiah 33:17-19

Biblical Context

Isaiah 33:17–19 speaks of beholding the king in beauty and a distant land, while the heart contemplates dangers and questions the old towers and scribes. It concludes that you shall not see a fierce, incomprehensible people.

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the eyes are not eyes but awareness; the king is the crown of your own state of consciousness, the beauty of your aligned self. The land far off is the distant scene formed by imagination when you stand in the I AM, seeing harmony rather than threat. The trembling heart that meditates terror is your old identification with lack, with limitation counted by scribes and receivers—the measuring devices of the outer world. When you inquire where is the scribe, where is the receiver, you are asking, in inward terms, where are the beliefs that once counted towers, the habitual scripts that defined you by scarcity. The prophecy that you will not see a fierce people or a language you cannot understand means that, when you dwell in your true I AM, you render those external forms harmless, for they are nothing but memories in a mind that has awakened to its own sovereignty. Your consciousness, not a distant army, creates the circumstances; your kingly inner state is the land and the future you perceive.