Neville Goddard on Psalms 35:1-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 35 in context

Scripture Focus

1Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

9And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Psalms 35:1-14

Biblical Context

The psalmist pleads for deliverance from enemies and false accusers. He declares that salvation comes from the divine and moves toward humility through fasting and mourning.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm, outward enemies become the inner forces of fear, accusation, and doubt arrayed against your true being. You are the I AM, the shield, buckler, and salvation that stands within you. When you hear plead my cause, hear the command to imagine a new state, not to appease a distant God but to awaken your own awareness. The angel of the LORD is the inner guidance that dissolves confusion and redirects a darkened mind into a clear, luminous path. By declaring that you are already saved, protected, and supplied, you rewrite the narrative from struggle to victory. Your bones signify the whole being sustained by the I AM who delivers the weak from the strong; false charges and fear dissolve when you refuse to identify with them. The drama ends not in vengeance but in joyous recognition of salvation as a state of consciousness you can assume now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and state 'I am salvation' and feel the I AM as your shield guiding every step. Revise any fear into certainty of inner deliverance, and dwell there until it feels real.