Neville Goddard on Psalms 98:4-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 98 in context

Scripture Focus

4Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

5Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

6With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

7Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

8Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together

Psalms 98:4-8

Biblical Context

Psalm 98:4-8 invites all creation to make a joyful noise in praise of the LORD, celebrating His kingship. It pictures the sea, floods, and hills responding with joyful movement as outward signs of inward order.

Neville's Inner Vision

See this psalm as an invitation to awaken the I AM within and to treat worship as a state of consciousness rather than a ritual elsewhere. The earth and the sea are inner dispositions and feelings; the King is the ruling awareness you already are. When you allow a joyful noise to rise—your imagining, your spoken word, your felt sense of worth—you align with the King within. The harp, trumpets, and cornet symbolize your inner faculties—memory, desire, attention, and will—duly ordered to sing praises to the Lord of your life. The sea that roars and the fullness thereof represents your emotions fully acknowledged and harmonized by awareness. Let the floods clap and the hills be joyful become mental states balancing under your I AM presence. Worship, then, is not an external act but the authority you exercise in consciousness. As you affirm the presence of the LORD within, your world rearranges to express that joy; you experience a life that rings with unity, order, and praise, because you have remembered who you are.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM as King of your inner land and feel the joyful noise rise within you until the whole body resonates. Hold the feeling as reality, then go about your day with that assured melody.