Neville Goddard on Isaiah 59:9-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 59 in context

Scripture Focus

9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

15Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Isaiah 59:9-15

Biblical Context

Judgment and salvation appear distant as people wait for light while walking in darkness. The text links outward injustice to inner transgressions and departed truth.

Neville's Inner Vision

From this Isaiah passage I hear a cry of the consciousness: judgment is far because we dwell in a mental state of darkness; truth is fallen in the street because we have invited fear and falsity into our inner dialogue. Yet the voice within insists that the light we seek is not distant but a shift of awareness we can bring about now. When you refuse to identify with the sense of separation and you acknowledge the I AM as the steady witness, you stop grope-walking and begin walking by the inner wall of your own awareness. The confusion of noon-day as night dissolves as you revise the story: you are the observer who can choose a brighter thought, the one who can declare, 'Truth is truth within me, and justice begins with my corrected imagination.' In practice, you cultivate a conviction that the condition you see outside is but a mirror of your inner state; by retraining that state, light returns, justice enters your life, and salvation emerges as a present, enforceable fact.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled: declare, 'I am the light that dispels darkness; truth and justice are now in my life,' and dwell in that sensation for a minute. See the inner wall illumined as you revise your sense of limits.