Lamentations 2:9

Her she'arim are sunk into the ground; 1 He hath destroyed and broken her bars; 1 her melech and her sarim (princes) are among the Goyim; 1 the torah is no more; 1 her nevi'im also find no chazon (vision) from Hashem. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

8Hashem hath purposed to destroy 1 the Chomat Bat Tziyon; 1 He hath stretched out a measuring line, 1 He hath not withdrawn His hand from destroying; 1 therefore He made the rampart and the chomah to lament; 1 they languished together. 1

10The Ziknei Bat Tziyon sit upon the ground, 1 and keep silence; 1 they have cast up aphar upon their heads; 1 they have girded themselves with sackcloth; 1 the Betulot Yerushalayim hang down 1 their heads to the ground. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:36Hashem shall bring thee, and thy melech which thou shalt set over thee, unto a Goy which neither thou nor Avoteicha have known; and there shalt thou serve elohim acherim, etz va'even (wood and stone). + 28:36 2Kgs 25:7

1 Samuel 28:6And when Sha'ul inquired of Hashem, Hashem answered him not, neither by chalomot (dreams), nor by Urim, nor by nevi'im.

2 Kings 25:7And they slaughtered the Bnei Tzidkiyah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Tzidkiyah, and bound him with shackles of nechoshet, and carried him to Babylon.

Nehemiah 1:3And they said unto me, The remnant that have survived the Exile + 1:3 the Golus there in the province are in ra'ah gedolah and reproach; the Chomat Yerushalayim also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with eish.

Isaiah 24:12In the Ir is left desolation, 1 and the sha'ar is stricken with ruination. 1

Jeremiah 39:2And in the eleventh year of Tzidkiyah, in the fourth month, the ninth yom of the month, the wall was broken through.

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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