Neville Goddard on Isaiah 42:14-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 42 in context

Scripture Focus

14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Isaiah 42:14-15

Biblical Context

The passage describes a long period of quietness followed by a fierce inner cry that declares destruction of old forms and the drying up of limiting conditions. It marks a shift from passive stillness to decisive inner action.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard's tone, the 'I' speaking is your I AM, your consciousness. The mountains, hills, rivers, and pools symbolize inner states of belief and habit. After long inner stillness, you unleash a deliberate cry by which you revise your inner landscape and erase blocks to your good. This destruction is not punishment but the clearing away of old images that suffocate possibility; the drying up of waters signifies the drying of limiting thoughts and recollections. When you imagine from the end and feel it real, you create the conditions for a new order to emerge in your life. Providence is the activity of your own consciousness; you are not waiting for God outside you, you are becoming the divine word that speaks worlds into being. The verse invites you to move from passive stillness into a purposeful inner declaration that transforms both your inner geography and outward circumstance.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, place a hand on your chest, and declare, 'I AM the stillness that births a new order.' Then vividly imagine the old mountains dissolving and the rivers of limitation drying up, while you feel the new reality already present.