Neville Goddard on Nahum 1:12-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nahum 1 in context

Scripture Focus

12Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

13For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

14And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

Nahum 1:12-14

Biblical Context

God declares that the oppression will end and the yoke will be broken. The removal of idols and images signifies a transformation in the inner state.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Nahum’s confident pronouncement, the entire drama is a map of your own inner state. When the LORD speaks of affliction and then affliction no more, He is not talking about places or armies, but the passage of a new understanding through your consciousness. The 'yoke' and 'bonds' are the fixed beliefs you have conceded as real: scarcity, fear, or guilt. The command to end the house of thy gods and to cut off the graven image signals the moment you stop projecting power onto outer things and begin calling your awareness to reform. The brutal ending is a transformation of identity: no longer the one who bears the old name, but the I AM who has broken its image and declared its grave. This is the act of return—the return from a state of limitation to the truth of your divine nature. As you accept that you are already free in consciousness, the idol dissolves, the image evaporates, and the old bonds shatter as you witness your new life arise in the same moment of inner knowing.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, claim I AM as your central fact, and revise the scene by declaring the old yoke broken already; feel the release and see the image dissolving in your mind's eye.