Lamentations 2:9

Her gates are sunk into the ground: 1 He has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, 1 And her king and her prince among the Gentiles: 1 There is no law, 1 Nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord. 1

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In The King James Version

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

In Context

8And he has turned to destroy 1 The wall of the daughter of Zion: 1 He has stretched out the measuring line, 1 He has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: 1 Therefore the bulwark mourned, 1 And the wall was weakened with it. 1

10The elders of the daughter of Zion 1 Have sat upon the ground, 1 They have kept silence: 1 They have cast up dust upon their heads; 1 They have girded themselves with sackcloth: 1 They have brought down to the ground 1 The chief virgins in Jerusalem. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:36The Lord carry away thee and thy princes, whom thou shalt set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers know; and thou shalt there serve other gods, wood and stone.

1 Samuel 28:6And Saul inquired of the Lord; and the Lord answered him not by dreams, nor by manifestations, nor by prophets.

2 Kings 25:7And he slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

Isaiah 24:12And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

Jeremiah 39:2And the host of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremiah was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king’s house;

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:2-10

Cause, Extent, and Greatness of Zion's Calamities. ( b. c. 588.) 1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 3 He… Read the whole commentary →

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