Neville Goddard on Isaiah 59:1-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 59 in context

Scripture Focus

1Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

5They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Isaiah 59:1-8

Biblical Context

Isaiah 59:1-8 says God can save, but separation arises from our own iniquities; our thoughts and deeds produce a lack of justice, vision of corruption, and absence of peace.

Neville's Inner Vision

See this passage as a map of your inner state. God’s hand is not shortened; that is your awareness, always ready to save when you acknowledge it. The problem is not the world outside, but your belief that you are apart from that saving presence. Your iniquities, in this reading, are your current identifications—fears, lies you tell yourself, and the habits of thought that become defiled hands. Yet these pictures are not verdicts; they are symptoms of a mind misidentified. In Neville’s method, you do not attack the facts but revise the sense of who you are. Assume the truth that you and God are one, that the I AM is your own awareness now. When you stand in that unity, your crooked paths soften, your desire for justice rises from within, and the outer world rearranges itself to reflect your inner peace. The verse invites you to move from judgment to reconciliation—through the felt sense of divine presence within you.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, repeat 'I AM' as your present identity, and revise any sense of separation by affirming unity with God. Then visualize a crooked road becoming straight and feel the peace that follows as your inner state aligns with the I AM.