Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 6:22-26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 6 in context

Scripture Focus

22Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

23They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

Jeremiah 6:22-26

Biblical Context

The text describes an invasion from the north that fills Zion with fear and mourning. It calls the people to garments of sackcloth and ashes as a sign of grievous readiness for loss.

Neville's Inner Vision

I read these lines as a waking sign that the 'enemy' is not an army afar but a state of consciousness inside you. The northerly invasion is the surge of fear: a belief that you are at risk, cut off from mercy, riding the currents of judgment. In Neville's terms, God is the I AM—the awareness that you are imagining your world. The people and the battlefield are inner dispositions—how you feel, and what you believe about yourself. When you sense the sword on every side, you are invited to stop identifying with that fear and to revise it from within. The call to gird thee with sackcloth and wallow in ashes is the disciplined sorrow of letting go of a false self, a mourning that clears the surface for a new state of being. The sudden spoiler points to a breakthrough: by altering your inner state—refusing to dwell in fear—you alter the scene you experience. You are not at the mercy of events; you are the imagineer of your own destiny.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume the feeling 'I AM the I AM—unassailable and safe.' See the outer threat dissolve as you dwell in the inner sanctuary of awareness.