Neville Goddard on Lamentations 4:9-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 4 in context

Scripture Focus

9They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:9-10

Biblical Context

The passage laments a time of extreme famine during destruction, noting that hunger can cause ruin as deadly as war, even driving people to desperate acts such as cannibalism.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner kingdom, the outward desolation of famine is only a mirror of a deeper lack of nourishment in consciousness. When the verse speaks of those slain by hunger, it reveals a mind that has forgotten its true supply. The 'I AM' within you is not affected by wind or sword; it imagines and thus creates your experience. To the awakened, hunger is a symbol of misdirected attention, a belief that life is scarce rather than inexhaustible. The fruits of the field represent inner ideas, gratitude, and right assumption—the real sustenance that never fails. The mothers who seem to barter their children with survival betray a consciousness that identifies with lack, not with divine abundance. The cure is not pity but perception: revise the story you are telling about yourself until you feel saturated with the sense of supply. Sit with the conviction: I AM the abundance of God now. Let imagination supply the scene: you are fed, you are secure, you are living by the abundance that you already ARE. Then outer conditions align with that inner reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: For 2 minutes, assume the feeling, 'I AM abundance now.' Close your eyes and imagine a table of food materializing, feel gratitude, and let that sense of fullness color your next actions today.