Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 34:20-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 34 in context

Scripture Focus

20I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

21And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

22Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 34:20-22

Biblical Context

The passage shows God delivering Judah and its leaders to enemies; the city is besieged and burned, leaving the land desolate and the people scattered.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this text is not about a political empire but the inner kingdom. The enemies are the thoughts that seize your attention and pretend to rule you; the ones who seek your life are the prophets of fear that chase your deeper self. The dead bodies becoming prey to birds and beasts are the old beliefs your mind feeds on when you identify with a self that lacks. The City of Judah desolate stands for a mind emptied of its true awareness when you forget the I AM. Yet the command to return to the city is the inner invitation to reoccupy your awareness with a new state. The fight, the taking, the burning, are the natural shedding of former forms—your imagination clearing space for a more permanent sense of I AM presence. This is law: your outer events are vivid images of your inner states. When you command the inner city to return and claim it, you refuse to be governed by fear, and you awaken the living power that makes all things new.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, I AM the ruler of this inner city; I return now to its true life. Feel the old fears burn away as you inhabit a revived inner space and let your awareness renew the scene.