Neville Goddard on Psalms 9:3-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 9 in context

Scripture Focus

3When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

4For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

5Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

Psalms 9:3-5

Biblical Context

Enemies are turned back and perish in the presence of God. God maintains the speaker's right and sits on the throne judging rightly.

Neville's Inner Vision

From where I stand in the I AM, I read Psalms 9:3-5 as a manual of inner sovereignty. The enemies are not strangers but thoughts—doubts, fears, old habits—that recoil when I awaken to the presence within. The line thou satest in the throne judging right declares that the I AM is not apart from me but my own essential life—an inner king who pronounces what is true about me and my world. When I dwell as this state, the heathen and the wicked are only the worn stories I once believed—rebuked and destroyed by the power of conscious awareness. As the inner judge, I invalidate every claim of lack, limitation, or condemnation, letting the outer world reflect a life governed by right order. The name that once haunted me loses its power, erased by the quiet permanence of presence. This is the law: consciousness frames form. So I claim the victory now, here, as a present fact of being, and the world responds to the ruler I am within.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling of the I AM seated on the throne within your chest; declare I AM justified, my right and my cause are established now. See your inner enemies retreat and dissolve at that Presence.