Neville Goddard on Lamentations 1:16-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 1 in context

Scripture Focus

16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

Lamentations 1:16-17

Biblical Context

The passage laments deep sorrow, separation, and the sense that comfort is distant while enemies surround Zion. It presents the struggle as an inner crisis of the heart rather than only external exile.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the weeping, the desolation, the surround of enemies are not external events pressed upon you, but states of consciousness you have embraced as real. The 'comforter' that should relieve the soul is not out there but within the I AM, the indwelling calm that animates every sensation. When Zion raises hands in longing and no one answers, what you call 'the world' has simply become a chorus of outer appearances that you have mistaken for reality. The remedy is always inside, a deliberate assumption that the comforter has always been present; you have only forgotten to acknowledge the inner presence. Jerusalem's scatteredness, the sense of impurity, is a call to purification by attention: you are requested to return to the one power that sustains you—the I AM. By reimagining the surrounding adversaries as inner thoughts and by affirming the comforter within, the feeling of exile dissolves and the mind's city becomes whole again.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare 'I am the comforter within' until it feels real. Then revise the sense of being surrounded by enemies by imagining a circle of I AM light encircling Zion within you.