Inner Mourning, Inner Renewal

Jeremiah 9:17-22 - 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.
20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
Jeremiah 9:17-22

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 9:17-22 presents a community crying in sorrow and facing ruin, with death imagery within Zion. Neville-style reading sees this as an inner state seeking revision and awakening.

Neville's Inner Vision

I speak to you as your own I AM: the wailing, the tears, the cries from Zion are not sent from somewhere outside you but rising from a state you have accepted as real. The LORD of hosts is the indwelling awareness that you are, not a distant deity but your own consciousness. When you hear the voices—mourning women, lamentations, death at your windows—recognize them as messages from a past self clinging to a story. Death here is an idea, not a fact, a mental visitor that arrives when you forget you are the one who imagines the scene. By shifting your attention, and by assuming a new state, you disarm the imagery. Teach yourself to shift the center of gravity from fear to gratitude, from lack to plenty, from exile to homeland. As you persist in the implied truth that you are the I AM, your environment begins to reflect this inner order and the field rearranges itself accordingly. You are not at the mercy of calamity; you are the author of the inner drama and its ending.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and feel the sensation of being at home in your inner land of plenty. Then revise the scene in your mind: I AM whole; this fear dissolves as I dwell in the land of my realization.

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