Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 22:20-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 22 in context

Scripture Focus

20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

22The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Jeremiah 22:20-23

Biblical Context

Judah is told that its external security—its alliances and idols—will fail while it remains deaf to the inner voice. Judgment comes, forcing exile and a painful birth of true turning.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 22:20-23 speaks to every mind that trusts outer laurels more than the I AM within. Lebanon and Bashan become images of your grand, external securities—the cedars of pride in which you nest—while the divine voice you once knew is ignored. The prophecy reveals a basic spiritual law: when you refuse the inward invitation, your “pastors” and “lovers” (your outward supports) are swept away by the wind of circumstance, and you stand revealed in purity and shame before your true self. Yet this is not punishment but a birthing of a higher state. The painful travail signals a correction in consciousness, a shift from dependence on forms to the realization that security is the I AM’s awareness present as you. When you stop listening to the outer voices and listen inward, you discover that the woes and exile are temporary, preparing the soul for a return—an inward exile that ends in return to the one Presence. Your true home is the still, small I AM within, where every cry becomes a birth cry toward awakening.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare in the present tense: I am the I AM. From this moment, I listen to the inner voice and revise any reliance on outward security; feel it real within.