Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 49:23-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 49 in context

Scripture Focus

23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

24Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 49:23-24

Biblical Context

Damascus is portrayed as a fearful, feeble state—confounded by evil tidings, with sorrow on the sea and a mind ready to flee. It marks inner disturbance as a call to revise.

Neville's Inner Vision

Damascus in this oracle is not a city but a state of consciousness that trembles at evil tidings. The confounded Hamath and Arpad, the faintheartedness, the sea that cannot be quiet, are inner movements of the mind when fear believes it has real grounds. To see Damascus grow weak is to witness a part of you that mistakes outward news for truth. But you are the I AM, the still, knowing presence that witnesses the trembling and does not yield to it. Fear is not an enemy to eradicate but a signal to revise the inner atmosphere. When you imagine tidings as thoughts, you may choose a new angle: imagine you are safe, the sea within you remains quiet, and the travail becomes birth-pangs of a steadier consciousness. Do not chase the old fear away with force; instead, assume the feeling of the opposite state until it takes hold as real. In that moment, the sufferings recede and your inner Damascus is remade into a calm coast, a consciousness that knows itself as I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and revise by sinking into the feeling 'I AM'—the calm witness. See the sea within you quiet and the fear dissolving as you breathe in that certainty.