Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 50:23-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 50 in context

Scripture Focus

23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

24I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:23-24

Biblical Context

The text describes Babylon as desolate and under judgment, with a snare laid by the LORD, catching those who resisted Him. It presents outer ruin as connected to inner resistance to divine authority.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the hammer as a picture of a fixed mind that believes force will alter life. Babylon is a state of consciousness that has trusted outward power rather than the inner I AM. When the text says a snare is laid and you are caught for striving against the LORD, it is not a recount of history but a description of inner resistance to your true self. The desolation spoken of is the collapse of any belief that you are apart from the divine awareness that you already are. To reinterpret is to reverse the vision: see that the hammer cannot break what you are in truth, for you are the I AM aware of itself. Practice by assuming the end: you are free within, you revise the situation as if it had always been so, and you feel it real. Let the inner movement—God in you—work through you, turning outside appearances into reflecting images of your awakened state. The snare serves to awaken, not to punish; when you accept the LORD as your own I AM, you find yourself caught at last by joy, not by fear.