Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 38:4-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

4Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

5Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

7Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

Jeremiah 38:4-7

Biblical Context

Officials would condemn Jeremiah for speaking truth and imprison him in a mire-filled dungeon; a later intervention frees him. The passage portrays imprisonment and deliverance as an inner drama of the mind.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the narrative, Jeremiah represents the living word and welfare-seeking impulse within consciousness. The dungeon denotes the mind's mire when fear and doubt overrule conviction. The princes and the king symbolize internal thoughts that would suppress truth, threatening your inner welfare by imprisoning the word. Yet this drama is not external fate but an invitation to revise your state of consciousness. Ebedmelech—the compassionate intervention—is the symbolic act of revising perception, lowering the cords that bind the word, and freeing the imprisoned truth from the mire. The lesson is that the I AM, your sole awareness, holds sovereignty; imagination alone can reshape reality. When you imagine the end—Jeremiah freed, the mire cleared, the city safe—you align with the welfare of your true self. The scene invites you to trust your inner authority and treat hostile thoughts as signals to revise, not as verdicts to fear. Your inner drama becomes the mechanism by which you convert limitation into awakening.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling of Jeremiah’s release; picture the cords dissolving and the mire turning to solid ground. Rest in the sense of 'I am free' for a few moments, letting this new state saturate your mind.