Neville Goddard on Psalms 74:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 74 in context

Scripture Focus

1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psalms 74:1-3

Biblical Context

Psalm 74:1-3 laments desolation of the sanctuary and asks God to remember and restore the people. In Neville's view, the lament reveals an inner state begging to be revised by awakening the I AM and rebuilding Zion within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 74 speaks the cry of a people pressed by circumstance, yet in the Neville lens it reveals the inner state that believes it is forsaken. God is not outside you but the I AM within, the very awareness that remembers and purchases a nation of consciousness. When the speaker asks, 'O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?' this is the old belief that your inner Zion has been abandoned. The remedy is not to petition without; it is to return to the sense of being owned by a perpetual covenant of awareness. Remembering the congregation becomes a revision of memory in consciousness: you recall the 'rod of inheritance' not as a historical artifact but as the active power of identification with your redeemed self, the mount Zion where God dwells. The 'enemy' does wickedly in the sanctuary only as you entertain doubt. Lift up thy feet unto the desolations, and bring your whole attention there to transmute it by imagining the sanctuary already restored in you.