Neville Goddard on Psalms 53:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 53 in context

Scripture Focus

4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

5There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

6Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalms 53:4-6

Biblical Context

Psalm 53:4-6 speaks of oppressors who threaten God's people and the fear that follows. It closes with a longing for inner salvation to come and for captivity to be reversed.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the psalm, the 'workers of iniquity' are not distant foes but states of consciousness that threaten your peace. They consume your vitality when you feed attention to fear, and their claim that you have not called upon God reveals you have forgotten the I AM within. Notice that 'great fear' arises where there is no fear, for fear here is a dream, a misreading of your power. When God scatters the bones of him that encampeth against thee, you realize the power behind those images is your own awareness dissolving them, not a miracle external to you. The cry 'Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion' becomes your inner command: salvation springs from Zion, your seat of awareness. As you awaken to God as I AM within, captivity melts away and the tribes of Jacob rejoice, Israel is glad. The return from exile is a return to present consciousness, not a distant redemption. You stand in the realized freedom of your true self, where every fear yields to the light of awareness and every longing is fulfilled in the now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume, 'I AM that I AM within me now.' Feel the fear dissolve as you call God from within and revise any scene of oppression into a present deliverance.