Neville Goddard on Psalms 58:1-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 58 in context

Scripture Focus

1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Psalms 58:1-11

Biblical Context

The psalm questions whether the community truly speaks righteousness and exposes inner deceit, then declares that God will judge the earth and vindicate the righteous.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, Psalm 58:1–11 is not a decree against others but a map of inner states. The 'wicked' are the habitual thoughts of fear, habit, and misjudgment that have ruled your mind since birth. When the heart 'weighs the violence of hands,' it means you have believed harmful intentions in thought; you are warned that such thoughts do not prosper. The cries to 'break their teeth' and 'let them melt away' symbolize the release of those imaginations by the light of I AM awareness. As you refuse to feed these creatures with attention, they dissolve like waters that run away. The line about the snail melting to nothing is the spiritual law that persistence of old conditions yields nothing in your field. The righteous rejoicing is the moment you witness your own inner court taking note of a new pattern: the old must go, and you, the I AM, are the judge who pronounces a different verdict. God is not distant judgment but your own steadfast awareness that you are the sole builder of your reality.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled: see yourself as the I AM judging inner patterns of fear and dishonesty, then declare that only what aligns with truth remains, and let the new state settle in.