Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 8:13-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 8 in context

Scripture Focus

13I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:13-14

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 8:13-14 describes divine judgment that removes outward blessings and leaves the people in silence, prompting them to seek fortified places. It calls for repentance and turning inward as the outward signs fade away.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the fading harvest and the call to silence are not punishments but signals of a shifting state of consciousness. The withered vines and barren trees symbolize beliefs and identities you have outgrown; the passing of what you thought was yours marks a purging of old attachments. When the text asks, Why sit still? and urges you to enter fortified cities and be silent, understand this as a move to withdraw attention from external props and to guard your attention until you revise your inner posture. The water of gall represents the bitter emotion arising from guilt or outdated self-concepts; it invites you to turn toward the I AM within and revise, not resist, the experience. Exile and cutting off from former abundance become an inner return—an opportunity to discover that you are the I AM, the living abundance, and that the true city is a state of consciousness you can inhabit here and now.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling of abundant life now. Close your eyes, place a hand on your chest, and declare, I am the I AM; revise my state until the old drought dissolves into inner abundance.