Neville Goddard on Psalms 7:12-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 7 in context

Scripture Focus

12If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Psalms 7:12-14

Biblical Context

The verses describe God preparing weapons against the persecutors, which Neville reframes as the mind’s inner warfare between truth and fear.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm, the sword and bow are not outward weapons but symbols of the mind’s disciplined action when I awaken to I AM. God here is the I AM that you are—awareness that can will a new state into being. If you turn away from that I AM, the imagination whets its sword against fear and imagined persecutors; you arm your thoughts with images of attack and you revolve in a dream of striving. Yet the truth is that the instruments of death and the arrows belong to the old self’s machinery—habit, mischief, and falsehood—conceived in the moment you forget who you are. When you remember, when you dwell in the inner Judge who sees only truth, you disarm the scene. The battlefield shifts from the outer world to the inner state, and judgment becomes a correction, not punishment. So revise by claiming: I am the I AM, seeing rightly; feel the calm decision in the solar plexus; imagine the arrows dissolving into light as you rest in the assurance that you are free in God.