Neville Goddard on Isaiah 65:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 65 in context

Scripture Focus

5Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

6Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Isaiah 65:5-7

Biblical Context

The verses warn against self-importance and outward ritual, showing that punishment and recompense arise from inner deeds and attitudes. It calls for true worship as inner alignment with the I AM rather than public shows.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Isaiah's lines I hear the inner cry of a mind clinging to its own holiness. The stand by thyself is the ego’s posture, the stubborn belief you are holier than thy neighbor. In Neville's key, the smoke and the fire are inner attitudes: fixed judgments that burn in you day and night as thoughts, emotions, and images. The writing before me speaks of the law written in consciousness: whatever you harbor inwardly becomes your outward recompense. When you insist you are holier, you confine the I AM to a narrow self-image and you experience separation as your reality. The mountains and hills symbolize outward rituals that have no real effect unless preceded by inner surrender. True worship is interior alignment with the I AM—awareness itself, the life that you and God share. The verse then invites you to reckon with old iniquities not as guilt carried by bloodlines but as outdated states of mind you choose to release. By turning in, you can rewrite the pattern into mercy, harmony, and creative action.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, inhale, and declare: I AM the light of God within me; I release the judgment of holier than and revise my inner state to align with the divine life within me. See yourself living from that I AM and notice the world shifting accordingly.