Inner Jerusalem, Outer Mockery
Lamentations 2:15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Passers-by clap their hands, hiss, and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, ridiculing what people call the city’s beauty and joy. The scene shows public scorn reflecting an inner judgment about worth.
Neville's Inner Vision
2:15 is not about a doomed metropolis but about the state you accept as real in your mind. The passers-by are the voices of doubt, nostalgia, and judgment that rise when you attempt to inhabit Jerusalem now. Their clapping and jeers reveal the old inner memory: that beauty and joy are scarce or distant. But the city of Jerusalem is an inner state, a mode of consciousness that you can assume. To reinterpret this scene, you do not seek to change the crowd; you change your assumption about who you are. In your imagination, claim that you are the perfection of beauty, the joy of the earth, and feel it as present tense reality. Then live from that feeling, letting it color every perception. As you persist, the outer circumstances align with the inner sense, and the mockery fades as your inner city shines.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise: say I am the city of Jerusalem, the perfection of beauty, the joy of the earth, and feel it fully. Then imagine the crowd clapping for you as you walk in that truth, untroubled by their gaze.
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