Neville Goddard on Psalms 137:3-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 137 in context

Scripture Focus

3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

4How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Psalms 137:3-6

Biblical Context

The psalm describes captors demanding a song in exile, and the pressure to grant mirth in a strange land. It holds a vow to remember Jerusalem as the true center of joy and worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

On the level of consciousness, the outward captors are not people but the habits of mind that forget its home. The demand for a song is a demand to produce joy from a mind that believes itself to be separate. Jerusalem, the call to inner worship, is a state of awareness within; to forget it is to forget who one truly is. The line about being in a strange land speaks to mental displacement—when attention is fixed on externals rather than the I AM. Yet the vow to let the right hand forget its cunning and the tongue cleave to the roof of the mouth is the discipline that guards the inner sanctuary. By shifting attention inward and imagining the I AM as the living city within, one resists the external drumbeat of exile. Imagination becomes the deliverer; fidelity to inner Jerusalem becomes the chief joy, a constant song that survives any circumstance.

Practice This Now

Assume the inner Jerusalem as your present reality and revise any sense of exile to that truth. Feel it real for five minutes, letting the I AM sing within you.