Inner Hunger, Outer Desolation

Lamentations 4:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Lamentations 4 in context

Scripture Focus

4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:4-5

Biblical Context

The verses describe a starving city: a sucking child thirsts for bread as others who once feasted lie desolate in the streets; wealth and luxury have shifted to poverty and scorn.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the famine in Lamentations is not only a report of a city but a mirror of the mind. The verse's dryness—the tongue cleaving to the roof of the mouth—is the soul’s refusal to feed on the bread of truth, on the imagination that creates form. The children asking for bread are the faculties of perception seeking nourishment from within; the bread stands for a verily lived idea, the living word that makes all things new. The ones who fed delicately and wore scarlet are shown to be desolated in the streets because their security was sought in outward things, not in the inner conviction of I AM abundance. When you understand that Wealth and Provision are states of consciousness, then the entire outer scene can flip the moment you choose a different inner scene. Do not seek the loaf outside; instead revise and realize you are already sustained by the inner reality you assume. The suffering is not punishment but a signal to revise belief. Your present consciousness governs the forms you behold; the inner man prospers, and the outer world follows.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, feel abundance as real, and revise the scene by declaring 'I have bread now' while imagining the child receiving it. Dwell in that feeling until it anchors.

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