Neville Goddard on Isaiah 50:2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 50 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Isaiah 50:2

Biblical Context

The verse questions the absence of response when God calls and asserts His power to redeem and deliver.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine that God is the I AM within you, not a distant external force. When Isaiah says 'Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?' he points to the moment your inner I AM arrives and finds no ready response of belief or attention. The question exposes a choice: you either acknowledge the divine presence or drift into the belief that you are separated from power. Your God, your Redeemer, is not small; His hand is not shortened. The line 'at my rebuke I dry up the sea' is a metaphor for disciplining your mind—calling up a strong, definite thought and letting it wash away the tides of doubt. In practice, you are being asked to align with the truth that deliverance is a state of consciousness you can inhabit here and now. The sea's drought becomes your inner weather when you refuse to feed the old story of inability and instead dwell in the I AM that says, 'I can deliver.'

Practice This Now

Act: Sit quietly, declare 'I AM deliverer' and imagine the moment of redemption flooding your life; visually dry up the 'sea' of doubt and stand in the certainty of immediate deliverance.