Neville Goddard on Psalms 77:1-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 77 in context

Scripture Focus

1I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

10And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

11I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

12I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

13Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

14Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

15Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

16The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

17The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

18The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

19Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalms 77:1-20

Biblical Context

Psalm 77 speaks of a soul in distress crying to God, wrestling with doubt, then choosing to remember God's works and trust in His guiding presence.

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 77 invites us to notice that the cry of distress is not weakness but a turning of attention. In Neville’s tone, the author’s pain is an inner state that grows loud when consciousness forgets its own I AM. The night pain and sleepless eyes become a symbolic storm within the mind, and the plea 'Will the Lord cast off forever?' becomes the moment you confront a belief that you are cut off from your own divine lead, yet the I AM within you attends to the cry. Yet the psalmist does not abandon the inner sanctuary; he remembers the right hand of the Most High and declares that the works of the LORD are alive within him. When you, too, recall your inner 'wonders of old,' you shift from doubt to realization: the divine Way is not outside you but in the sanctuary of your awareness. The images of sea, clouds, and thunder reveal the movements of your own mind: storms rise, but you as consciousness can witness them, choose a new interpretation, and let God's strength be declared among the people of your mind. The flock is your life guided by an inner Moses and Aaron, steady and sure, through the currents of imagination.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling of I AM as you recall a divine act in your life; revise any sense of abandonment by declaring, 'God is with me now,' and visualize being led through inner seas by Moses and Aaron.