Neville Goddard on Lamentations 2:10-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 2 in context

Scripture Focus

10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

12They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

Lamentations 2:10-12

Biblical Context

The elders and people sit in silence, dust on their heads, and sackcloth; tears and hunger mark the destruction of the city. The scene depicts a collective suffering that mirrors an inner, spiritual crisis.

Neville's Inner Vision

See the verse as a map of your inner state. The elders that sit on the ground are fixed beliefs that have gathered dust; the sackcloth is your humility that refuses to pretend the old pattern still feeds you. The virgins bowing their heads are your vulnerable faculties—care, imagination, desire—suddenly quieted by fear. Tears that fail and a liver poured upon the earth are the visceral response of consciousness when an old structure collapses. The destruction of the daughter of my people is the breakdown of a habitual sense of self; the cries of the children for corn and wine symbolize a hunger that only your inner nourishment can satisfy. When the soul is poured into the mother’s bosom, that is energy returning to the source within you. You are not bound to this ruin; you are invited to revise it by assuming a new state. In the I AM, imagine the city being fed again, and feel the abundance as real now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and envision the inner city fed again; see nourishment returning to the streets. Then assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled: I AM is now the reality you inhabit.