Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 9:20-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 9 in context

Scripture Focus

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 9:20-22

Biblical Context

Jeremiah calls the people to hear the LORD’s word and to teach lament, while death and decay intrude into homes, symbolizing the severity of the situation. The passage portrays ruin as a call to shift perception and acknowledge the truth of inner conditions over outer appearances.

Neville's Inner Vision

Where you hear 'the word of the LORD' in the text, hear it as the word of your own I AM, the self that never dies. The images of windows, palaces, and fields are not places but states of consciousness. Death coming up into our windows signifies the moment an old belief or identity has closed its service and is ready to be released. The carcases falling 'as dung' speaks of the worn-out stories and fears you have fed with attention, now returning to the ground so new growth may rise. In this light, the call to lament becomes a summons to shift perception: stop clinging to scarcity and allow a fresh, fearless imagination to enter your inner house. When you assume the word as your own reality, you call forth the harvest-man's handful of symbols—the signs of abundance—into your field. The decree ends with the possibility that none shall gather the old carcasses, meaning you no longer identify with them; you become the gardener of your inner soil, inviting life to take root and resurrect the vitality of your days.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare 'I AM' as the word that reforms every circumstance; revise the scene by picturing the old carcasses cleared and a vibrant field ready for harvest, then feel the new vitality as real.