Lamentations 2:9

Modern English Version

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; the Law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:7

They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah. They bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant that returned from captivity is there in the province enduring great affliction and reproach. Also, the wall of Jerusalem remains broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, nor is there any among us who knows how long.

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is battered to destruction.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, nor have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them. They prophesy to you a false vision and divination, and emptiness, and the deceit of their heart.

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They lead you into vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city wall was broken up.

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting; they have remained in their strongholds. Their might has failed; they became as women. They have burned her dwelling places; the bars of her gates are broken.

Jeremiah 52:14

And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into captivity, under affliction and great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest; all her persecutors overtook her in the midst of distress.

Lamentations 4:15

They cried out to them, “Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch us!” Therefore they fled and wandered; men among the nations said, “They shall live with us no longer.”

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our life, the anointed king of the Lord, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 12:13

My net also I will spread upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

Ezekiel 17:20

I will spread My net upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against Me.

Ezekiel 7:26

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor. Then they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Hosea 11:6

The sword slashes in their cities, consumes their oracle-priests, and devours because of their own counsels.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without a standing stone, and without an ephod and teraphim.

Amos 1:5

I will break the gate bar of Damascus; from the Valley of Aven I will cut off the one enthroned, and from Beth-eden the one who holds the scepter. The people of Aram will go into captivity to Kir, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will bring you and your king, which you will set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods, wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:63

It will be that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will take pleasure over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. You will be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.

1 Samuel 28:6

Saul inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him by dreams, or by lots, or by prophets.