Neville Goddard on Lamentations 4:18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 4 in context

Scripture Focus

18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

Lamentations 4:18

Biblical Context

The verse portrays being hunted and barred from the streets, signaling that the speaker’s end has come and a cycle of hardship is finished. It frames exile and judgment as a closing of a long season.

Neville's Inner Vision

All lamentation arises in the mind as a situation you are currently describing as 'out there.' Place this text inside your own consciousness; the 'they' are not people but distrusting thoughts that chase your steps. 'The streets' are the channels of your life you feel you cannot traverse, the old scripts of limitation. When you hear 'our end is near' or 'our end is come,' understand this as the end of a long habit of fear, not the death of you. The end is the closing of one era of thinking, and the birth of a new, freer sense of self. If you acknowledge that you are the I AM, the awareness that creates both problem and solution, you can revise the scene. In the inner theater you can walk those streets unhindered, because your mind is the only city that matters. By assuming a new state—free, unafraid, spacious—you feel the end of lack dissolving and a fresh chapter emerging. The verse invites you to own sovereignty over time by recognizing you are the cause and the effect of your reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and declare: 'I am the I AM; I walk freely in the streets of my mind.' Feel the movement and imagine the old end fading as you breathe in a new sense of freedom.