Neville Goddard on Psalms 107:17-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 107 in context

Scripture Focus

17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

19Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

20He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Psalms 107:17-20

Biblical Context

Affliction arises from the inner state tied to transgression. When one cries to the LORD, deliverance and healing follow as an inner restoration.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the distress in Psalm 107:17-20 is not punishment meted out by a separate power, but a revelation of your own inner state. The 'fools because of their transgression' are those who identify with guilt and fear until life contracts around them. The 'gates of death' are the symbolic edges of a mind that has forgotten its I AM. Yet the cry unto the LORD captures the turning of attention—awareness itself—toward the living Word within. The word sent is not an external decree but the recognition of truth: you are already whole, and health is your natural state. When you assume that condition—feeling the truth of "I AM Health" as if it were now—your inner atmosphere shifts, and the outer circumstance follows. The healing is the restoration of alignment between consciousness and embodiment; the past distress dissolves as the new inner story takes hold. You are not saved by time or place, but by waking to the one Self that heals—the Word in you that creates your reality. In that moment, destruction gives way to renewal, and you are delivered into your true life.