Neville Goddard on Lamentations 4:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 4 in context

Scripture Focus

1How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Lamentations 4:1-2

Biblical Context

The verse laments the dimming of gold and the devaluation of Zion's sanctity, showing that sacred inner wealth can seem lost when consciousness identifies with external change. In Neville's view, such 'loss' is a shift in inner state, not an external fact.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the gold as your consciousness, the finest light you call I AM. When you see it dim, the stones of the sanctuary poured into every street, you mistake outer forms for real substance and forget that every form is but a creation of inner mind. The precious sons of Zion—your high states of awareness—are judged as earthen pitchers because you have accepted lack as fact. Yet the potter's hands are yours: the I AM active in imagination fashions every vessel. Return to the assumption that you are the refined gold, not the faded image on the street. Assume the gold shines, revise the sense of self, and feel it real that your inner sanctuary is intact; as you do, the outer street reconfigures into a temple. The value you seek is not in conditions but in consciousness, and it may be revived by a simple act of inner revision—an inward certainty that the gold shines, unseen, awaiting recognition.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume you are the refined gold; revise the self-image until you feel it real, then picture the sanctuary restored and the street becoming a temple.