Neville Goddard on Lamentations 4:21-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 4 in context

Scripture Focus

21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

Lamentations 4:21-22

Biblical Context

These verses cast Edom's boastful outward joy against Zion's end of captivity. They signal that punishment ends when inner accountability is awakened and liberation follows.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, Edom and Zion are inner states of consciousness, not distant lands. Edom's land of Uz and its boastful, drunken image symbolize the ego clinging to separation; the cup passing through indicates a shift in perception rather than a punishment from without. The line the punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished reveals that the mind’s drama of bondage has burned itself out, freeing the heart from past loops. He will no more carry thee away into captivity points to the I AM mind refusing to participate in old cycles; it will visit thy iniquity and discover thy sins as an inner audit that exposes root causes. The true exodus is inward: when you assume the state of already-free consciousness, you stop seeking external deliverance and stand as the one consciousness that never left its home. The door to Zion is the awareness that you are already free, and the “enemies” fade as projections dissolved by the light of awareness.

Practice This Now

Imagination practice: assume the feeling of being Zion now, as the I AM. Visualize the cup passing through you and your nakedness covered by a sense of inner abundance, until this liberty feels real in the present.