Neville Goddard on Psalms 60:1-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 60 in context

Scripture Focus

1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

8Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

9Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

10Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

Psalms 60:1-12

Biblical Context

The psalm pleads for God’s return and deliverance, contrasting reliance on human help with divine power and affirming that victory comes from the I AM within.

Neville's Inner Vision

To walk this psalm is to enter a state where God is not distant but the I AM within. The 'earth trembles' and 'breaches' are not external catastrophes but counterfeits of my old fear and doubt. When I acknowledge that the I AM is present as the power that heals, the Shaking loses its grip and the breaches mend as I stand in conscious unity with Truth. The banner given to those who fear thee becomes the beam of inner truth I now wear; it signals that the whole world bends to my inner conviction. Deliverance comes by the right hand of God within, not by armies I marshal, for 'vain is the help of man' unless it is grounded in the divine presence I acknowledge. God has spoken in holiness; I rejoice as I align my mind with that holy decree, dividing the inner landscape into truth and fear, claiming Gilead, Manasseh, and Ephraim as faculties under the rulership of consciousness. The adversaries—Moab and Edom—are inner residues cast out by this inward ordering. The cry becomes a declaration: with God I shall do valiantly, for He is the power treading down my enemies within and without.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, soften your focus, and repeat: 'I am that I am; through God I do valiantly.' Then envision a banner of truth unfurling over your chest, and feel the victory as already accomplished in your inner state.