Inner Suffering, Inner Freedom
Lamentations 5:10-11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Lamentations 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse describes severe famine that darkens skin and brutal acts against women in Zion, signaling deep communal suffering. It also signals a moment of collective vulnerability and crisis within the community.
Neville's Inner Vision
Read as a Neville-style inner vision, the text speaks not of distant history but of your own inner furnace. The famine and the wounds in Zion are images of a mind hammered by fear, lack, and stories that life is against you. The darkened skin is the heat of unhealed emotion, a sign that your inner atmosphere has grown arid and inflamed by doubt. The ravishing of women and the maids stand for violated innocence inside your psyche, beliefs once held sacred now overpowered by fear. But this is not a verdict; it is a summons to shift your awareness. In Neville’s method, outer conditions mirror your state of consciousness, so you can revise from scarcity to I AM presence. Assume you are already nourished, protected, and free; feel the inner Zion restored and peaceful, and let that reality radiate through your body until it becomes your lived experience.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and revise the scene by declaring, 'I AM that I AM; this famine is replaced by abundance.' Then feel the relief as peace and safety flood your chest for a minute, letting the inner Zion rise anew.
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