Lamentations 2:9

The Passion Translation

Her gates have collapsed to the ground; he has wrecked and shattered their bars. Her king and leaders are captives among the gentiles, and instruction from the Torah scrolls is no more. Her prophets, too, receive no vision from Yahweh.

Cross References

Psalm 74:9

We don’t see any miraculous signs anymore. There’s no longer a prophet among us who can tell us how long this devastation will continue.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left desolate with her gates battered down.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then Yahweh replied: “The prophets are using my name to lie to the people. I’ve not sent them or commissioned them. I’ve not spoken a word to them. They prophesy false promises and speak of an imaginary future—things they have made up in their minds.

Jeremiah 23:16

So I, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, say: Ignore what those prophets prophesy to you; they are deluding you and imagining visions of their own, and not what comes from the mouth of Yahweh.

Jeremiah 39:2

After the city had been surrounded for two years, they broke through the city walls.

Jeremiah 39:8

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, the Babylonians demolished the city walls, and burned down the temple of Yahweh and the king’s royal palace.

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon’s warriors had enough of fighting, so they stayed inside their forts. With their courage melted away, they have been left like ordinary civilians. Their city gates have been broken through, and her houses are on fire.

Jeremiah 52:14

The Babylonians under the command of Nebuzaradan demolished all the walls surrounding Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah’s people have gone into exile under harsh labor and much pain. They found no place to rest living among foreigners. All their enemies have seized them in the narrow passes.

Lamentations 4:15

“Get away! Unclean!” people shouted at them. “Keep back! Keep back! Don’t touch!” So, they fled Jerusalem and wandered to the nations, but they were not welcome to stay there either.

Lamentations 4:20

They captured Yahweh’s anointed leader, our king; the hope of our survival was caught in their traps. We thought that under his protective shadow we would live among the nations.

Ezekiel 12:13

I will throw my net over him and trap him in it. I will take him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans, where he will die without having seen it.

Ezekiel 17:20

I will throw my net over him and trap him in it. I will take him to Babylon and render judgment against him there for all the wicked things he did against me.

Ezekiel 7:26

One disaster will follow another, with rumor upon rumor. They will seek a vision from the prophet but in vain. The priestly teaching of the divine law will be destroyed, along with the counsel of the elders.