Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 21:7-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 21 in context

Scripture Focus

7And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

8And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

9He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

10For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 21:7-10

Biblical Context

Two paths confront the people: stay in a doomed city and perish, or go out and live by surrendering to the foe. The passage frames life and doom as the result of an inner choice.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah places before us not a battleground of nations but a battleground of the mind. The pestilence, the sword, the famine are inner movements—fear that clings, habit that resists, scarcity that tightens. When the LORD says, I set before you the way of life and the way of death, the choice is not geographical but experimental: which state of consciousness shall you inhabit? To stay in the city is to identify with the old, dying self—a mind ruled by alarms and appearances that ends in destruction. To go out and fall to the Chaldeans is to yield to a new tendency of life, to align with the unseen power within you, and thereby live. The deliverance promised is not an external mercy but a reversal of inner sight: the I AM can turn a siege into freedom when you assume the life you intend. Your reality follows your inner assumption; you are not at the mercy of events but the author of them. The phrase I have set my face against this city for evil speaks to the inner stance that resists renewal; choose life by changing your consciousness, and the outer scene follows.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of the delivered one now: imagine stepping out of the city and toward the life you intend, as if it were already finished. Feel it real.