Neville Goddard on Lamentations 2:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 2 in context

Scripture Focus

5The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Lamentations 2:5-6

Biblical Context

The verses describe the Lord as an enemy who has consumed Israel and destroyed its palaces and places of assembly, leaving Zion in mourning. It portrays the forgetting of feasts and sabbaths as a crisis in the inner sanctuary.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM lens, these lines reveal an inner state rather than an external foe. The Lord as an enemy is the cost of a consciousness that has forgotten its indwelling God and let old beliefs dissolve the temple. When Israel is swallowed up, and the tabernacle is taken away like a garden, the mind has paused worship and abandoned its sacred gatherings. The destruction of assemblies and the forgetting of feasts and sabbaths symbolize movements within mind that disengage from contact with God. Yet this is not final punishment but a map of inner movements: a withdrawal, a cooling, a dislodging of old roles such as king and priest. The remedy is not to battle an external force but to reclaim consciousness by assuming a new state. I am the Lord of my mind; I may choose to rebuild the temple by imagining a garden blooming, assemblies returning, and sacred time revived. When I press into that inner reality, the I AM remains constant, unmoved, and sovereign within me.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume a new state: I AM the Lord of my mind. Feel the temple within being rebuilt, the garden in bloom, the assembly revived; dwell in that reality as if it is already true.