Neville Goddard on Isaiah 50:1-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 50 in context

Scripture Focus

1Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

2Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

5The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

Isaiah 50:1-5

Biblical Context

Thus the chapter speaks of a people feeling divorced from the Source, asking who sold them; yet God asserts power to deliver. The servant is equipped with a learned tongue to speak in season and ears to hear, signaling readiness for faithful obedience.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Isaiah 50:1-5 as an inner itinerary. The bill of divorcement is the old belief that you are separated from your Source; when the Lord asks where the answer is, He is asking you to look within, for your power to deliver rests in the I AM you identify with. The power to redeem is not a miracle outside you but your own consciousness turning toward its Source. The 'tongue of the learned' is your disciplined imagination, the faculty by which you speak comfort to the weary state of mind. Morning waking is the invitation to hear anew, to train your ear to perceive the learned speaking through your own inner voice. To be obedient means to stay in alignment with the I AM, not to perform externals; the opened ear shows you have chosen to listen to divine guidance. When you accept this, you will discover that the inner word spoken in season carries the power to heal and to restore, and the seeming distance between you and God dissolves as you realize you are the self same I AM moving in your life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the I AM is speaking through you now. Revise the old sense of separation by softly repeating I AM delivered and feeling it real, then listen inward for the answer.