Neville Goddard on Isaiah 5:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 5 in context

Scripture Focus

5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 5:5-6

Biblical Context

The vineyard is stripped of its hedge and wall, left to be eaten and trodden; it is laid waste with no rain to nourish it. It signals judgment within the inner life.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Isaiah's vineyard, I claim you are reading your own inner field. The hedge and wall symbolize the protections and boundaries your consciousness once kept around its garden. When the text says, I will take away the hedge, it marks a shift of awareness: the mind is laid bare to every movement of thought and impulse. The ground being laid waste, with no pruning or digging, signifies a state where discipline ceases and the soil of imagination lies fallow. Thorns and briers sprout where desires are misqualified, and the clouds are commanded not to rain, indicating ideas withheld from nourishing belief. If you identify with being separate from the I AM, you experience desolation; if you awaken to God as your awareness, you reclaim sovereignty. Imagination is the irrigation system; by changing your state, you invite rain and growth. So the remedy is not punishment but a conscious revision: return to inner boundaries in your mind, affirm the I AM's protective presence, and let the rain of inspiration fall once more on your inner vineyard.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise your state: picture the hedge rebuilt, the wall standing, and rain returning. Feel the certainty of I AM guarding your inner vineyard.