Neville Goddard on Isaiah 42:18-25 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 42 in context

Scripture Focus

18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?

20Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

23Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

25Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

Isaiah 42:18-25

Biblical Context

The passage depicts a people who are deaf and blind to inner guidance, failing to observe the inner law. Judgment arises from their disobedience, while a call to listen and restore remains.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, hear these words as not a history but a map of your inner state. The 'servant' and the 'messenger' are your present states of consciousness—your ability to perceive and obey. When you say you see many things, yet observe not, you reveal the habit of intellectual sight without inner conviction. The law is not a harsh external code; it is the inner order magnified by attention. The Lord is well pleased with righteousness, for when you align with this inner law, you dignify right action and bring your life into harmony. The captivity and bondage spoken of become mental sensibilities, holes opened through fear, prisons built by habit. The restoration must begin in your imagination: forgive, revise, restore, declare, 'I am free in the inner law.' The fury poured on him shall burn away what you believed about separation when you acknowledge the unity of I AM with all.

Practice This Now

Take 5 minutes now: close your eyes, breathe, and declare: 'I am the I AM. I hear and observe from within; I revise my state to the perfect servant of the inner law; feel the restoration now.'