Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 52:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 52 in context

Scripture Focus

4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

5So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Jeremiah 52:4-5

Biblical Context

Nebuchadnezzar and his army encircle Jerusalem, building forts around it, and the city remains besieged into the eleventh year of Zedekiah. The passage frames this as a period of judgment and upheaval that precedes exile.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner Jerusalem is not stone and dust, but your own consciousness. The siege in Jeremiah is the moment when a fixed belief closes in on you, a Nebuchadrezzar that says, you are not enough, the world is against you. The forts are the habitual thoughts you uphold to guard a sense of lack. Notice that the siege lasts long—until the eleventh year—reminding you that your attention can stay fixed for a long season, but only until you decide to revise. The I AM—your pure awareness—stands unseen behind the curtain of fear. Imagination creates reality; therefore, the army you fear is a mis-told version of your own conviction. When you choose to revise by assuming a different state, you dissolve the wall by which you are imprisoned. With a single shift in assumption—I am whole, I am free now—the fortress falls and the city expands into peaceful clarity. The siege is a map; your present feeling of limitation is the compass pointing you toward the inner shift that makes it disappear.

Practice This Now

Imaginative practice: Close your eyes and declare I am free now. Feel the walls dissolving as you breathe; revise your sense of self to the state of wholeness and feel it real, then carry that feeling into a moment today.