Neville Goddard on Psalms 5:4-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 5 in context

Scripture Focus

4For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

7But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

8Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

Psalms 5:4-10

Biblical Context

Psalm 5:4-10 contrasts God's holiness with the life of the wicked, invites the speaker into worship through mercy, and calls for guidance in righteousness against imagined foes.

Neville's Inner Vision

To read Psalm 5:4-10 through Neville's lens, you see that the 'wicked' and 'enemy' are your own restless thoughts and fear-based images, not distant persons. The psalmist does not plead to an external judge; he imagines his inner state as the temple of the I AM and vows to worship there in mercy. When he says, Lead me in thy righteousness because of mine enemies, he is practicing a simple rule: assume the end you desire and permit your inner movements to align with it. In the theatre of consciousness, 'the multitude of thy mercy' is the soft persistence of grace that welcomes you into a calm, reverent awareness, so that your attention respects truth and rejects deceitful self-talk. The line that there is no faithfulness in their mouth becomes a diagnosis of your own discursive mind when it repeats fear and cunning; you dissolve this by returning to the truth you imagine. As you cast out those counterfeits, you are essentially casting them out of your own state of consciousness; the external world will reflect this new inward order. Stand in your temple, and let your way be straight before your face.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close eyes, and declare, I am the I AM, dwelling in the temple of mercy. Visualize a straight, bright path before your face and feel the calm order of righteousness guiding every thought.