Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 19:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 19 in context

Scripture Focus

8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Jeremiah 19:8-9

Biblical Context

The passage depicts a city desolated and mocked, with famine and siege illustrating severe inner consequences and judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened mind, these lines are not about a physical city but about a state you have imagined into formation. The desolation is the habit of thinking you are separate from life, the hissing is the murmuring doubt that passes through you, and the plagues of fear and lack that seem to govern your days. The siege and straitness symbolize a mind under pressure, convinced that survival depends on struggle rather than revelation. But the verse is not a curse; it is a signpost pointing you to revert to the I AM, the only ruler of your inner landscape. When you accept that all you see is the picture your imagination has painted, you can revise it by preferring a different state. Imagination, rightly practiced, can transform the inner city from ruins into a temple, from scarcity into abundance. In this light, the city’s desolation dissolves as you declare, in feeling and speech, 'I AM the city, and I reside within a perfect order of life.'

Practice This Now

Assume the inner city is rebuilt now; feel the I AM as the sovereign governor. Let the image of thriving life fill your mind for a few minutes, repeating, 'I AM' until it lands as present reality.