Lamentations 2:9

Good News Translation

The gates lie buried in rubble, their bars smashed to pieces. The king and the noblemen now are in exile. The Law is no longer taught, and the prophets have no visions from the Lord.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:7

While Zedekiah was looking on, his sons were put to death; then Nebuchadnezzar had Zedekiah's eyes put out, placed him in chains, and took him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel lived without the true God, without priests to teach them, and without a law.

Nehemiah 1:3

They told me that those who had survived and were back in the homeland were in great difficulty and that the foreigners who lived nearby looked down on them. They also told me that the walls of Jerusalem were still broken down and that the gates had not been restored since the time they were burned.

Psalm 74:9

All our sacred symbols are gone; there are no prophets left, and no one knows how long this will last.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is in ruins, and its gates have been broken down.

Jeremiah 14:14

But the Lord replied, “The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.

Jeremiah 23:16

The Lord Almighty said to the people of Jerusalem, “Do not listen to what the prophets say; they are filling you with false hopes. They tell you what they have imagined and not what I have said.

Jeremiah 39:2

On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, the city walls were broken through. (

Jeremiah 39:8

Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:30

The Babylonian soldiers have stopped fighting and remain in their forts. They have lost their courage and have become helpless. The city gates are broken down, and the houses are on fire.

Jeremiah 52:14

and his soldiers tore down the city walls.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah's people are helpless slaves, forced away from home. They live in other lands, with no place to call their own— Surrounded by enemies, with no way to escape.

Lamentations 4:15

“Get away!” people shouted. “You're defiled! Don't touch me!” So they wandered from nation to nation, welcomed by no one.

Lamentations 4:20

They captured the source of our life, the king the Lord had chosen, the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.

Ezekiel 12:13

But I will spread out my net and trap him in it. Then I will take him to the city of Babylon, where he will die without having seen it.

Ezekiel 17:20

I will spread out a hunter's net and catch him in it. I will take him to Babylonia and punish him there, because he was unfaithful to me.

Ezekiel 7:26

One disaster will follow another, and a steady stream of bad news will pour in. You will beg the prophets to reveal what they foresee. The priests will have nothing to teach the people, and the elders will have no advice to give.

Hosea 11:6

War will sweep through their cities and break down the city gates. It will destroy my people because they do what they themselves think best.

Hosea 3:4

In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination.

Amos 1:5

I will smash the city gates of Damascus and remove the inhabitants of Aven Valley and the ruler of Betheden. The people of Syria will be taken away as prisoners to the land of Kir.”

Deuteronomy 28:36

“The Lord will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.

1 Samuel 28:6

and so he asked the Lord what to do. But the Lord did not answer him at all, either by dreams or by the use of Urim and Thummim or by prophets.