Neville Goddard on Lamentations 5:1-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:1-8

Biblical Context

Lamentations 5:1-8 expresses a lament of oppression—loss of inheritance, exile, and suffering—while acknowledging collective guilt and the longing for deliverance. It portrays a people pressed by hardship under rulers and scarcity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would, this text becomes a map of your inner states. The lament is the consciousness that has allowed life to seem turned over to strangers, houses to aliens, and rest to be withheld. The words 'Remember, O LORD' invite you to remember the I AM within—the permanent you that never changes. Fathers and sins are not external facts but patterns you have inherited as beliefs you consent to. The 'Egyptians' and 'Assyrians' symbolize habitual thoughts and circumstances you have invited to control your day. Yet the passage does not condemn you; it reveals where attention has fixed. By shifting your assumption to a new state of sufficiency—anchored in the I AM—you awaken a different memory and invite the world to reflect it. When you practice imagining from this state, your present experience reorganizes around abundance, liberty, and steady rest. The delivery you seek is the arrival of a new inner memory that the world gradually mirrors.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the feeling of abundant life now—silently say, 'I am the I AM; my inheritance is within me,' and feel that state as your immediate reality.