Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 8:13-17 - 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.

15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

16The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:13-17

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 8:13-17 presents a scene where abundance fails, silence falls, and trouble arises as divine judgment for sin. The people seek peace, but the inner state remains unsettled, mirroring outer calamity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Jeremiah frames a scene within you: your vine and fig tree barren when you turn from the I AM to fear. The 'I will surely consume them' is not destruction of others but the end of a state—you are dissolving an old version of self that feeds on fear and scarcity. The 'defenced cities' are the mental fortifications you erect to avoid truth; in that inner siege you drink the 'water of gall'—bitter taste of repentance without the realization that you can re-state the self anew. The 'peace you looked for' is the inner peace of alignment, not outer circumstance. The 'snorting of horses' and 'cockatrices' are subconscious beliefs that gallop through your mind when you refuse to claim the new state. When you insist that God is within as I AM, you recognize this 'land' as your inner field and the I AM as sovereign ruler of it. The drought ends the moment you imagine the harvest, the vineyards blossoming as you assume the feeling of abundance.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: In a moment of quiet, assume the feeling of harvest is already yours. Feel the vineyard blooming in your inner land until that image becomes your lived state.