Lamentations 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Her gates sank into the ground; he smashed her bars to bits. Her king and her princes are among the nations; instruction is wanting, Even her prophets do not obtain any vision from the Lord.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:7

They slew Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes; then they put out his eyes, bound him with fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without a true God, without a priest-teacher, without instruction,

Nehemiah 1:3

They answered me: “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and under reproach. The wall of Jerusalem has been breached, its gates gutted by fire.”

Psalm 74:9

Even so we have seen no signs for us, there is no prophet any more, no one among us who knows for how long.

Isaiah 24:12

In the city nothing remains but desolation, gates battered into ruins.

Jeremiah 14:14

These prophets utter lies in my name, the Lord said to me: I did not send them; I gave them no command, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you lying visions, foolish divination, deceptions from their own imagination.

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of your prophets, who fill you with emptiness; They speak visions from their own fancy, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the fourth month, the city wall was breached.

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans set fire to the king’s house and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon’s warriors have ceased to fight, they remain in their strongholds; Dried up is their strength, they have become women. Burned down are their homes, broken their gates.

Jeremiah 52:14

Then the Chaldean troops with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile, after oppression and harsh labor; She dwells among the nations, yet finds no rest: All her pursuers overtake her in the narrow straits.

Lamentations 4:15

“Go away! Unclean!” they cried to them, “Away, away, do not touch!” If they went away and wandered, it would be said among the nations, “They can no longer live here!

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed—our very lifebreath!— was caught in their snares, He in whose shade we thought to live among the nations.

Ezekiel 12:13

I will spread my net over him and he shall be caught in my snare. I will bring him into Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans, though he shall not see it, and there he shall die.

Ezekiel 17:20

I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to judge him there because he broke faith with me.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster after disaster, rumor upon rumor. They keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction from the priest is missing, and counsel from the elders.

Hosea 11:6

The sword shall rage in his cities: it shall destroy his diviners, and devour them because of their schemings.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without king or prince, Without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or household gods.

Amos 1:5

I will break the barred gate of Damascus; From the Valley of Aven I will cut off the one enthroned, And the sceptered ruler from Beth-eden; the people of Aram shall be exiled to Kir, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you have set over you, to a nation which you and your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone,

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord once took delight in making you prosper and grow, so will the Lord now take delight in ruining and destroying you, and you will be plucked out of the land you are now entering to possess.

1 Samuel 28:6

He consulted the Lord; but the Lord gave no answer, neither in dreams nor by Urim nor through prophets.