Neville Goddard on Isaiah 42:22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 42 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Isaiah 42:22

Biblical Context

The passage describes a people robbed, spoiled, and snared, left in prisons without deliverance—symbolizing a painful inner exile and a longing for restoration.

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah 42:22 speaks of a people robbed, spoiled, snared, and hid in prison houses, a prey with none to deliver. In the Neville reading, these words reveal a state of consciousness where you have forgotten your royal I AM and let circumstance govern you. The robbing and snaring are inner dispositions—habits of thought that bind you to lack. The prison houses are fixed identifications you wear as truth. The petition “Restore” is not an external plea but a call from the living awareness within you to revise your assumptions. When you believe you are separate from your power, you walk among holes and cages; when you imagine yourself already restored, you begin to feel you never departed from your freedom. The outer world then reflects your inner choice: the sense of loss dissolves as the I AM asserts its reality and draws the right conditions through imagination. Your task is to dwell in the feeling of restoration and act from that state, not from lack.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine you are stepping out of the holes into light, and softly declare, I AM restored. Remain in that feeling for a few breaths and act from it in daily life.