Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 3:6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 3 in context

Scripture Focus

6The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

Jeremiah 3:6

Biblical Context

In Jeremiah 3:6, God recalls Israel's unfaithfulness, climbing to every high place to worship idols. The verse shows how outward acts mirror inner devotion.

Neville's Inner Vision

Be still and behold: the LORD says, have you not observed what backsliding Israel has done? She climbs the high mountains and lies under every green tree, playing the harlot. This is not history only, but a theater of your own consciousness. The 'Israel' in you is your waking sense of self, and the acts of 'idolatry' are the errant images your mind has worshiped instead of the I AM. When Josiah's day dawns, it is not a political reform but a turning inward—a revelation that the true throne sits in the heart. The mountains and trees are your states of mind, the harlotry a habit of imagining separation from God. But the saints in you are not condemned; they are called to awaken from the dream, to replace the idols with steadfast awareness. Your inner kingdom is not built by conquest of external events but by revision, by feeling as if the self you adore is already the presence you seek.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and revise the image of yourself from idol-worshiping to the I AM within. Say softly, I am the Presence I seek; feel the inner throne becoming still and true.