Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 4:31 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 4 in context

Scripture Focus

31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Jeremiah 4:31

Biblical Context

The passage voices an inner cry of Zion, a weariness of spirit in the face of danger. It suggests that distress is an inner movement within awareness, not a fixed circumstance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verse voices a cry, but in the true theater of consciousness, the cry is not a fact to be battled but a signal that a new state is ready to be born. The 'voice' heard as a woman in travail is the birth-throes of a new consciousness beginning to form within you. The 'daughter of Zion' is your own center of awareness, spread open in prayer, crying, 'Woe is me,' because old grips have exhausted themselves. The 'murderers' are not people but beliefs that have killed your former sense of security. Do not fight the sensation; revise it by turning to the I AM, the unchanging awareness that you are. In Neville's method, imagine from the end: see yourself already occupying the future you seek, feel the reality of peace, and let the world catch up. The travail dissolves when you consent to a new premise: you are the creator, your consciousness is the law, and your circumstances reflect your inner state. When you rest in that awareness, exile and return become inner shifts that reveal a newborn life, hope accessible here and now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, inhale deeply, and assume: I am the I AM, and this travail is birthing a new Zion within me. Feel the certainty of the end state now, as if already real.