Neville Goddard on Isaiah 38:9-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

16O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

20The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 38:9-20

Biblical Context

Hezekiah writes of his sickness and the fear of death, then celebrates his recovery. He declares that the living must praise the Lord and share His truth.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, these verses are not mere history; they are your inner diary of consciousness. Hezekiah believes his days are cut off, that the gates of the grave stand at his threshold, and his body grows weak. Yet the turning point comes with a shift in assumption: life in the land of the living is a present possibility of awareness, not a distant event. The 'GOD' he seeks is the I AM you call by your own name; healing is the rearrangement of inner states. The bitterness of sickness is the old tenancy of fear, the pit of corruption the dream by which you have ruled yourself. When you affirm that you already live, that you already stand in God’s truth, restoration comes—your energy returns, your eyes brighten, and you shimmer with a quiet song. The Lord is ready to save you now; therefore you sing with the days of your life, honoring the truth you have chosen. This is the path from lament to praise: assume and feel-it-real the life your heart demands.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the current sense of illness into a present healing. Feel the relief as if the restoration has already occurred, and declare, 'I am living, I am well, I am praised'.