Neville Goddard on Isaiah 37:14-29 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 37 in context

Scripture Focus

14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

15And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,

16O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

17Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

18Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

20Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

22This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

26Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

28But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Isaiah 37:14-29

Biblical Context

Hezekiah receives a threatening letter, goes to the Lord in prayer, and appeals to God’s sovereignty; the passage presents prayer as aligning consciousness with divine power that delivers from fear.

Neville's Inner Vision

The scene is your inner state when fear writes a threatening letter across your mind. The house of the LORD is not a temple outside you, but your current consciousness, the still point where I AM dwells. Spreading the letter before the LORD is you exposing your belief to awareness, no longer feeding it with secrecy. When you pray, you are not asking a distant deity to intervene; you are affirming the truth that the Lord of hosts resides between the cherubim within your own awareness, and that all kingdoms are within your control through your state of consciousness. Incline thine ear, and hear becomes the act of turning toward inner listening until your thoughts acknowledge the reality of the I AM behind every scene. The boastful claims of Assyria equal the old story of limitation; they are merely projections of your past doubts. The promise that deliverance will come to reveal God as LORD alone is your inner confirmation that you are sovereign. The external threat recedes as you hold to this inner fact: the hook in the nose, the bridle on the lips, is the mind’s old momentum, now redirected by awareness that you have never left your own throne.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In a quiet moment, spread the fear-letter before your inner Lord and declare I AM; then feel the relief as if the deliverance has already happened and let the inner victory fill your chest.