Inner Mourning Manifesto

Jeremiah 9:17-19 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Jeremiah 9 in context

Scripture Focus

17Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Jeremiah 9:17-19

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 9:17-19 calls for mourners to lament Zion’s spoilage and exile, admitting the shame of turning away from the land. It frames our inner state as the true land we forsake and must return to through awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Neville Goddard voice: In this text, the people are states of consciousness. Zion is your awareness, the land is your inner kingdom, and the wailing is the honest emotion that arises when you notice a misalignment between what you are imagining and what you are experiencing. The call to mourning women and cunning women is a call to attend to your inner atmosphere—to invite the feelings that mourn what is spoiled and to invite the wise elements of your imagination to come and assist in revision. The spoken verdict, 'How are we spoiled!' is your cue that you have allowed your dwelling-place to drift from the truth you intend. Exile and seeming defeat are not fates outside you, but movements of your inner state that can be reversed by deciding, in consciousness, that you are now in the promised land. The wailing is not tragedy but a signal that you are awake to the gap between current appearances and your desired actuality. When you acknowledge this, you awaken the power to choose a new image and to feel it as real.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume you are already dwelling in Zion; revise any belief of exile by speaking 'I am in my promised land now,' and feel the emotion of return as if it is real.

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