Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 51:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 51 in context

Scripture Focus

3Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

4Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

Jeremiah 51:3-4

Biblical Context

The passage speaks of archer-like judgment against an enemy and the fall of its forces in the land of the Chaldeans. It frames external consequences as the outcome of a decisive defeat of the foe.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, in the Jeremiah passage the outward warlike language is nothing more than a mirror of your inner state. The archer who bends his bow is the mind that takes aim at a fear-image you entertain about yourself. The brigandine-armed self is a belief that you are guarded by a rigid identity and thus other power stands against you. Yet in this reading, the so-called destruction is not the annihilation of people but the unbinding of a locked pattern of thought. The text names the 'host' and the 'streets' as the stage where consequence plays out, but the inner scene is where you decide what lives in your awareness. When you accept that you are the I AM, you can revise the scene by announcing that this imagined foe holds no real power, and you feel the certainty that the inner state has shifted and thus the outer appearance follows suit. The word 'thus the slain shall fall' becomes a metaphor for old beliefs dropping away as you awaken.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes, breathe, and assume the I AM presence. Revise any threatening scene by replacing it with a calm, victorious inner image and feel it real.