Neville Goddard on Lamentations 2:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 2 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

7The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Lamentations 2:6-7

Biblical Context

Verse 2:6-7 speaks of the temple and sanctuary being abandoned, the feasts forgotten, and the altar cast off. It presents a spiritual exile where sacred order seems destroyed by anger and neglect.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here you stand not in a ruin of stone but in a mind where the tabernacle of awareness has been neglected. When Lamentations says the tabernacle is violently taken away, see it as your inner state of consciousness that has fallen asleep to its divine identity. The destruction of the places of assembly and the forgetting of feasts are not distant judgments but a mental habit of neglect—the mind has turned from the I AM to the noise of fear and motive. The Lord casting off his altar and hating the sanctuary is the moment you stop honoring the indwelling presence. The enemy you give power to is not a foe outside; it is your own belief in separation from God within. Yet the message is not despair but invitation: return to the temple of awareness. Reinstall the feasts and sabbaths as daily recognitions that you are in constant communion with the I AM. In this inner rebuilding, the walls of your palaces become secure because you remember that the temple is a state of consciousness that cannot be destroyed by outward events.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, affirm I AM as your essential awareness, and revise the scene by imagining your inner temple restored; feel the feast of worship returning within you today.