Neville Goddard on Lamentations 5:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 5 in context

Scripture Focus

12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Lamentations 5:12-13

Biblical Context

Princes are hanged up by their hand; elders are not honoured; the young are ground down and children suffer. The passage portrays a society whose outer oppression mirrors inner misgovernance.

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines do not describe an external kingdom but the weather of your own consciousness. The 'princes' and 'elders' are inner states of authority and wisdom, while the 'young' and 'children' are the impulses and vitality within you. When you identify with a ruling self that hangs the hand of power and fails to honor inner guidance, you push life into hardship—the 'grinding' of effort and the 'wood' that falls on the young. The cry of lament is your recognition that you have not trusted the I AM, the only governor who can safely return you from exile into your rightful kingdom. The exile is any moment you have forgotten that the reality you see is produced by your state of consciousness. Return comes as you revise the scene by assuming the ruler-ship of I AM, praising wisdom, and protecting the tender parts of your being. In this mode, judgment dissolves; justice becomes alignment with your true nature; you experience a reinstitution of the inner order where all beings are treated as reflections of that I AM.

Practice This Now

Assume the inner throne now: close your eyes and feel the I AM presence on a throne in your chest; imagine honoring the inner elder and guiding youthful energies with wisdom, declaring, 'I AM the ruler of my inner kingdom'.