Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 50:2-7 - 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.

Jeremiah 50:2-7

Biblical Context

Babylon's fall signals the exiles' return to seek the LORD, Israel and Judah reuniting in a lasting covenant and finding their true resting place within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah's oracle invites you to see outward ruin as the stage for inward renewal. Babylon, with its broken idols, is the outer form your old beliefs have built; when they topple, your inner sight clears. The north wind of judgment becomes a gentle pressure that compels you to turn from mountains of habit and ask, with the heart, for the LORD within. The exiles' return - Israel with Judah - symbolises your own reintegration of divided aspects into a single awareness. To seek the LORD is to re-remember who you are, not through external rites but by imagining a covenant already in place. The exiles' return - Israel with Judah - symbolises your own reintegration of divided aspects into a single awareness. The line about lost sheep and misguided shepherds points to the wandering thoughts that drift from the resting place of awareness; yet habitation of justice is here, now, in your consciousness. In Neville's terms, the events are inner movements; when you believe and feel it real, the seen world rearranges to match your inner state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and declare Babylon is fallen; I seek the LORD within, then imagine yourself already living in a perpetual covenant. Feel the certainty as a lived reality and carry that inner state into daily action.