Inner Rest From Oppression

Lamentations 5:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Lamentations 5 in context

Scripture Focus

4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:4-5

Biblical Context

The passage portrays a people pressed by relentless oppression, paying for essentials and having no rest. It signals a deep ache for relief and renewal.

Neville's Inner Vision

In you, the speaker is simply a waking dream of scarcity. The water bought with money and wood sold to us are not external markets but the conditions your mind has accepted as reality. The 'neck under persecution' and 'labour with no rest' reveal a belief that you must exhaust yourself to obtain supply, that rest is earned by submission to demand. Yet the 'I AM' within you is the true source of all water, wood, and breath. When you identify with the I AM, the scenes of lack dissolve; your consciousness is not a debtor to circumstances but the sovereign funder of all experience. So you can revise by declaring: I am the source of all water, wood, and rest; nothing is withheld from me by an illusion of need. The external conditions shift as you shift inward, for events follow states. Your inner posture of freedom invites a life where supply flows without struggle, and fatigue becomes a memory.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the scene by declaring: I am the source of all water, all wood, and all rest. Feel the relief and let your neck loosen as you inhabit the I AM.

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