Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 50:2-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 50 in context

Scripture Focus

2Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

3For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

4In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

6My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

8Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

9For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

11Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

12Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

13Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

14Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

15Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

18Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

19And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

20In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

Jeremiah 50:2-20

Biblical Context

The passage proclaims Babylon's downfall and a return of Israel and Judah to seek the LORD, forming a lasting covenant. It also speaks of exile, judgment, and eventual pardon for God's people.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the mind, Babylon is any persistent thought that exalts itself above truth; the coming of a great north wind is the stirrings of awareness that raze that idol-land. When you hear 'Declare ye among the nations,' heed it as a summons to awaken to the I AM that you truly are—consciousness that demolishes the false gods of fear, guilt, and limitation. The 'children of Israel' and 'Judah' are the scattered parts of your self longing for Zion, your original resting-place. The call to seek the LORD your God and join in a perpetual covenant is a command to choose a new alignment in awareness, not a distant event. As you imagine and feel this covenant as already established, the images and idols of your former beliefs crumble; your inner land becomes desolate only to make room for a completely new order. The North-forth-sent assembly of great nations is the appearance of the right conditions in mind that accompany this shift; you are no longer driven by outer storms but led by the inner vow of lasting fidelity to truth. Restoration is not external; it is rendering your consciousness into the likeness of Zion, and pardon follows as your memory of separation dissolves.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you are already restored, walking with your true people toward Zion. Feel the covenant as an inner fact you cannot forget, and let that feeling rewrite your surrounding life.