Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 38:21-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

21But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

22And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

23So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

Jeremiah 38:21-23

Biblical Context

The passage shows that choosing to stay fixed in fear invites inner repercussions. Exile and loss appear as the outer echo of an inward stance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 38:21-23 can be read as a parable of a soul choosing its tempo. The king's house in the verse is the seat of your inner ruler - your I AM awareness - that is being driven by fear into the mire by a mental chorus of imagined loss. The women who speak in the text are the collective beliefs of others' judgments - your own doubts, the voices that say you are trapped by circumstances. If you refuse to go forth, you allow the outer world to reflect back the inner paralysis; the king of Babylon represents the impersonating power of external fate when you forget that fate is a function of your inner assumption. The fire that burns the city is not punishment but purification: you burn away the former self by returning to the awareness that you have always been the I AM, not the victim of conditions. The prophecy offers a promise: there is a sovereign choice at every moment to step into a new state of consciousness and rebuild the city from within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, assume you are already free in this moment; feel yourself stepping forth from the mire into luminous space, and declare I AM free.