Neville Goddard on Lamentations 5:9-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Lamentations 5 in context

Scripture Focus

9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

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 5:9-13

Biblical Context

The text paints a scene of extreme hardship: bread earned at the peril of life, famine that darkens the skin, violence against women, and rulers and elders degraded, with youths pressed to grind and children harmed.

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines speak not of a distant city, but of your inner world when you mistake lack for reality. Bread becomes a symbol of your daily bread—the feeling that life sustains you—and the 'peril of the wilderness' is the fear-thought that robs you of this certainty. The famine that darkens the skin is the arid sense that energy and hope have dried up when you forget the I AM. The ravished women and unhonored elders mirror thoughts and memories that desecrate your sense of worth when you yield to external conditions. The princes hanging by their hand and the young grinding under wood reveal how you imprison your future by giving power to nothingness. Yet the remedy lies within: assume the I AM as your true sustenance and domain; revise the image of yourself to be free, secure, and intact regardless of outward events; feel the shift as you identify with consciousness rather than circumstance. When you stand in the reality that you are God in expression, the outer world will reflect a new order of peace, abundance, and dignity.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and declare, 'I AM the bread of life; I AM safety itself.' Feel that truth saturate your being until the sense of lack dissolves and a calm remains.