Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 14:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 14 in context

Scripture Focus

1The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

4Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

5Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

6And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Jeremiah 14:1-6

Biblical Context

Judah endures a severe drought as water dries up, people mourn, and both fields and beasts suffer; the verse portrays a spiritual crisis expressed in external hardship.

Neville's Inner Vision

The drought is a mirror of the mind. The word of the LORD to Jeremiah becomes the recognition that lack is a state of consciousness, not a fixed climate. Judah’s mourning, the gates languishing, and the empty water pits symbolize a soul convinced that nourishment comes from without, through externals and appearances. The scene invites a shift: awareness itself—the I AM—knows no drought. The land of your thoughts can be irrigated by imagination. When you identify with a mind that is endlessly supplied, the ground ceases to be chapped; you become the source of rain within. The nobles’ attempt to send the little ones to drink mirrors the tendency to seek relief in fleeting rites or external circumstances. But the higher state asserts: I am the living water; I am the rivers that never fail. In this inner recognition, fear dissolves, and the land revives; gates open, fields yield, and even beasts find their sustenance. Imagination, rightly directed, is the remedy that Jeremiah’s scene points toward—not external rain, but inner supply.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and affirm: I AM the living water, the source of all nourishment. See a clear stream flowing through the land of your thoughts until every gate, pit, and field is nourished by your inner supply.