Neville Goddard on Psalms 141:9-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 141 in context

Scripture Focus

9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

Psalms 141:9-10

Biblical Context

Psalm 141:9–10 asks for protection from snares laid by others and for the speaker to escape as the wicked fall into their own nets.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Goddard lens, Psalm 141:9–10 reveals interior weather more than external danger. The 'snares' and 'nets' are inner movements—fear, judgment, resentment—that you unconsciously set up and then project as if coming from others. The phrase 'they have laid for me' becomes your awareness that you have imagined a danger and then forgot that you are the thinker of that image. The I AM, your abiding awareness, is asked to shield you from identifying with those pictures. When you insist that you stand within, not beneath, the agenda of external snares, the power of the nets weakens; the wickedness you feared folds back into the self, and you escape by awakening. This is not a command to punish others, but a law of consciousness: to think a thought is to create its weather; to refuse its weather is to remain untouched. So you align with the truth that you are the perceiver, not the victim; you are the shelter, the net-breaker, the one who moves through every trap by virtue of I AM.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume: 'I am the I AM, shielded from every snare.' See the nets dissolve as you walk free, feeling the certainty of escape already real in your awareness.