Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 6:1-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 6 in context

Scripture Focus

1O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

2I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

3The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

4Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

5Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Jeremiah 6:1-5

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 6:1-5 depicts an imminent siege on Jerusalem, urging flight and signals of danger as destruction looms from the north. It also likens Zion to a delicate woman, surrounded by threats and warlike preparations.

Neville's Inner Vision

I hear Jeremiah 6:1-5 not as a distant historical event but as a map of my inner state. The city is Zion within my mind, a delicate and desirable possibility that I fear losing to the pressure of thought. The threat from the north is the sudden appearance of a belief that something is missing or at risk in my life. The shepherds encamping around Zion are my recurring thoughts, voices that rehearse the old story and feed on my attention, keeping me small. The call to prepare war is the stubborn conclusion I draw when I resist a higher view; in that moment the day seems to shrink, the shadows lengthen, and the sense of danger feels real. Yet the teaching is a doorway to change. By choosing not to resist and by turning my focus to the state I am becoming, I invite a shift from fear to awareness. I can go by night into stillness, revise the scene, and awaken to a larger self that does not tremble before catastrophe. Palaces of old belief fall away when I use imagination to rebuild them in love.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In the next few minutes, assume you are already in a state of wholeness. Feel it real by breathing into peace and imagining the north wind turning into nourishment as your mind reorganizes around a new, harmonious outcome.