Neville Goddard on Lamentations 2:8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 2 in context

Scripture Focus

8The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Lamentations 2:8

Biblical Context

The verse expresses that God intends to destroy the wall of Zion, measured by a line and not withholding destruction. The rampart and the wall lament together, languishing side by side.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the wall of the daughter of Zion as an inner boundary you once believed protected you—an assumed limit of your selfhood. The LORD's purposing to destroy is the I AM within you determining that boundary is obsolete. The line stretched out is your new alignment in consciousness, measuring a wider sense of being. When His hand does not withdraw from destroying, it means you are willing to let go of the old structure, even as it protests. Hence the rampart and the wall lament; old defenses and their fortress cry out as they fall away. Yet they languish together, for you have not yet separated from them in awareness. Realize they are only thoughts and feelings clinging to a false sense of safety. As you dwell in the I AM, you discover the inner city dissolving its walls, replaced by a spacious, fearless resonance. The birth-pain you feel is the necessary ending of limitation, making room for your true kingdom to rise.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, assume the wall is down now, and feel the I AM expanding your inner space. Hold the feeling for several minutes, living from the new state as if it already were true.