Neville Goddard on Psalms 35:15-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 35 in context

Scripture Focus

15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Psalms 35:15-21

Biblical Context

Psalm 35:15-21 depicts enemies rejoicing over the psalmist's distress, deceitful plotting, and mockery, with a plea for rescue and a vow to praise God in the assembly.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the verse is not about the people out there, but about the states you harbor within your consciousness. When adversity appears, the voices that rejoice and mock are only the memory of fear dressed in sound; they tear you, not from without, but from the belief you have given them. They flourish wherever you have forgotten that you are the I AM, the awareness that cannot be moved by appearance. The cry 'Lord, how long wilt thou look on?' invites a shift of sight—from dependence on outer relief to the awakening of your own inner rescue, your darling, the intimate function of God within you. Rescue is the dawning that you are being kept safe by the presence you call God, even while you face lions in the mind. I will give thee thanks in the great congregation—this is your decision to praise the One within, and thereby reclaim authority among the many thoughts. Do not let the enemies rejoice over you or their deceitful schemes govern your land; replace them with peace, truth, and a steadfast inner seat in God.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume I AM is governing this scene; revise inwardly by declaring that no attack can touch my inner peace. Then feel-it-real by letting a surge of gratitude and praise for the I AM rise within me.