Neville Goddard on Isaiah 5:13-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 5 in context

Scripture Focus

13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Isaiah 5:13-14

Biblical Context

Isaiah 5:13-14 depicts a people carried into captivity due to a lack of knowledge. Their fame and comforts fade as hell enlarges to swallow their glory and rejoicing.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your point of view must shift: 'my people' are your inner states of consciousness. When you forget the I AM—the awareness that you are the source and ruler of your world—you go into captivity, and your hunger and thirst are the soul's ache to align with divine knowing. The enlargement of hell is not a geographic doom but a growing belief that life is external to consciousness; your glory, your multitude, your pomp, and your rejoicing become signs of success you think you must earn from a world you do not control. The law is exact: identify with lack, and you descend into that inner darkness, projecting it as outer circumstance. Yet the remedy is simple: return to the I AM. Assume this I AM is all knowledge here and now; revise every thought of separation; feel that your consciousness is the only reality and that abundance — your natural state — flows from within. In this shift, captivity dissolves, hell becomes a symbol, and the kingdom of God awakens in your own temple of awareness.