Lamentations 2:9

New International Version

Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the Lord.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:7

They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Psalm 74:9

We are given no signs from God; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left in ruins, its gate is battered to pieces.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.

Jeremiah 23:16

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 39:2

And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.

Jeremiah 39:8

The Babylonians set fire to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.

Jeremiah 52:14

The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:3

After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Lamentations 4:15

“Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

Ezekiel 12:13

I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.

Ezekiel 17:20

I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there because he was unfaithful to me.

Ezekiel 7:26

Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will go searching for a vision from the prophet, priestly instruction in the law will cease, the counsel of the elders will come to an end.

Hosea 11:6

A sword will flash in their cities; it will devour their false prophets and put an end to their plans.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.

Amos 1:5

I will break down the gate of Damascus; I will destroy the king who is in the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden. The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

1 Samuel 28:6

He inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.