Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 8:10-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 8 in context

Scripture Focus

10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:10-12

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 8:10-12 portrays greed and deceit among leaders and people, promising peace while inner corruption grows. Judgment follows when this inner state is exposed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 8:10–12 is a map of your inner city. The 'wives unto others' and the 'fields to inherit them' signify the mind's surrender to covetousness—every tier of self, from the least to the greatest, persuaded that fulfillment lies in possession, status, and outward gain. The prophet and the priest in you are not ancient men, but inner functions that might speak softly yet deceive when they say, 'Peace, peace,' while fear and appetite burn beneath. In Neville’s psychology, the outer judgment mirrors an inner state—that the world is scarce, that harmony must be earned, that there is no immediate peace. When such denial persists, a visitation comes and you fall, not as punishment, but as a choosing to awaken to a different assumption. You are invited to revise the scene by recognizing that you are the I AM, the awareness that never lacks and never lies.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: silently declare, 'I am peace; I am abundance; I now dwell in the state of the I AM.' Then feel that truth as a present sensation, as if it already were.