Neville Goddard on Isaiah 42:22-25 - 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.

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 42:22-25

Biblical Context

The passage portrays a people robbed and trapped, awaiting restoration because they ignore the Lord's law. Their bondage reveals how inner choices determine outer conditions.

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah's warning is your inner picture: captivity is a state of mind you have accepted, not a fixed fate. The robbed and snared are aspects of you that keep turning away from the I AM—the presence that now, in imagination, you are. The prison houses represent habitual thoughts you have grown to believe as real, the idea that you are prey to circumstance. Yet the text does not condemn you; it exposes the contrast between your living awareness and the law you have refused to walk in. When you ask, 'Who will hear for the time to come?' you are hearing the invitation to return to the inner law, to reorient your mind to the divine pattern of life. The fiery trial is not punishment from a distant God but the old identify clinging to limitation until you awaken. By turning your attention to the I AM and revising your thoughts, you effect a movement from bondage to freedom, not by changing outward events, but by shifting inner convictions to truth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume, 'I AM restored now.' Feel the inner doors opening and the sense of freedom as your present state, then dwell in that awareness until it manifests.