Lamentations 2:9
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.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. God is described as an adversary who has swallowed up Israel without mercy, cast down the defenses of Judah, and burned up all the tents of Jacob like a flaming fire. The false prophets failed to expose Zion's iniquity. The …
Other Translations
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.
Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes <FI>are<Fi> among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.
Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
Cross References
The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou …
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, …
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and …
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him …
Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great …
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how …
Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I …
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was …
And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls …