Neville Goddard on Jonah 2:1-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 2 in context

Scripture Focus

1Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

Jonah 2:1-7

Biblical Context

Jonah prays from the belly of the fish, acknowledging affliction. He declares that God heard him and resolves to turn toward the holy temple.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this chapter, Jonah’s belly is not a place in the fish alone but a state of consciousness pressed by fear and isolation. The cry 'out of the belly of hell I cried' is the imagination awakening to its own power; when you call to the LORD, you are naming the I AM present in you, the steady watcher who hears even the deepest distress. The deep waters, the waves, and the bars around the earth symbolize the old structures of thought that seem to bind you; yet the verse shows that awareness can invert even the most apparent prison. When Jonah says, 'I will look again toward thy holy temple,' he is practicing a revision of attention: from fear to reverent inner sight. Your deliverance is not a rescue outside you but a reinstatement of the consciousness that God is present there, now, in the temple of your heart. As you remember the LORD, your prayer ascends to the inward temple and the I AM carries you upward, lifting the entire state into freedom.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, enter the temple inside, and feel the I AM hearing you. Repeat, with feeling: I am delivered; my life is redeemed from fear, here and now.