Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken the bars of her gate. 1 Her king and her princes are among the nations, the law is no more 1 and her prophets find no vision from Yahweh. 1

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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

8Yahweh decided to destroy the city wall of the daughter of Zion. 1 He has stretched out the measuring line and has not withheld his hand from destroying the wall. 1 He has made the ramparts and wall to lament; together they wasted away. 1

10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. 1 They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. 1 The virgins of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:36Yahweh will take you and the king whom you will place over yourself to a nation that you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; there you will worship other gods of wood and stone.

1 Samuel 28:6Saul prayed to Yahweh for help, but Yahweh did not answer him—neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

2 Kings 25:7As for Zedekiah's sons, they slaughtered them before his eyes. Then he put out his eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and brought him to Babylon.

Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “Those in the province who survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace because the wall of Jerusalem has been broken open, and its gates have been set on fire.”

Isaiah 24:12In the city is left a desolation, and the gate is broken into a ruin. 1

Jeremiah 39:2In the eleventh year and fourth month of Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.

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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