Lamentations 2:9

Lamentations 2:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Jerusalem’s gates have sunk into the ground. He has smashed their locks and bars. Her kings and princes have been exiled to distant lands; her law has ceased to exist. Her prophets receive no more visions from the Lord.

Context of Lamentations 2:9

7The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival. 8The Lord determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away. 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. 10The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 11My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:9 word by word

טָבְע֤וּ בָאָ֙רֶץ֙ שְׁעָרֶ֔יהָ אִבַּ֥ד וְשִׁבַּ֖ר בְּרִיחֶ֑יהָ מַלְכָּ֨הּ וְשָׂרֶ֤יהָ בַגּוֹיִם֙ אֵ֣ין תּוֹרָ֔ה גַּם־נְבִיאֶ֕יהָ לֹא־מָצְא֥וּ חָז֖וֹן מֵיְהוָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Her gatesשַׁ֫עַרsha‛ar · gateH8179
• are sunkטָבַעţâba‛ · to sinkH2883
• into the groundאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: soilH776
• he hath destroyedאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
• and brokenשָׁבַרshâbar · to breakH7665
• her barsבְּרִיחַberîyach · barH1280
• her kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• and her princesשַׂרώar · rulerH8269
• among the Gentilesגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• the lawתּוֹרָהtôrâh tôrâh · instructionH8451
• her prophetsנָבִיאnâbîy' · prophetH5030
• also findמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• no visionחָזוֹןchâzôn · visionH2377
• from the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Lamentations 2:9

• Nehemiah 1:3They 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.”
• Jeremiah 39:2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.
• Jeremiah 51:30Babylon’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 52:14The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
• Lamentations 1:3After 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.”
• Deuteronomy 28:36The 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.
• 2 Kings 24:12Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
• 2 Kings 25:7They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.
• Jeremiah 52:8but the Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,
• Ezekiel 12:13I 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 17:20I 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.
• 2 Chronicles 15:3For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.
• Ezekiel 7:26Calamity 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 3:4For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.
• Psalms 74:9We are given no signs from God; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.

Commentaries on Lamentations 2:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Her gates are sunk into the ground - The consequence of their being long thrown down and neglected. From this it appears that the captivity had already lasted a considerable time. Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles - Zedekiah and many of the princes were then prisoners in Babylon, another proof that the captivity had endured some time, unless all this be spoken prophetically, of what should be done.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Her gates are sunk into the ground - So completely destroyed, that one might suppose they had been swallowed up in an abyss. Her king - The prophet‘s lamentation, occupied before chiefly with the buildings of the city and temple, now turns to the people, beginning with their temporal rulers. The law is no more - The Jewish Law, the Torah, came to an end when it no longer had a local habitation. Its enactments were essentially those not of a universal…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9no vision: Daniel and Ezekiel were prophets of the Lord. They had visions while living among the exiles far from Judah (Ezekiel 1:1; Daniel 7:1). This verse, however, speaks about prophets in Jerusalem. These prophets claimed to receive visions from God, but their visions were false.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. Her gates cannot oppose the entrance of the foe into the city, for they are sunk under a mass of rubbish and earth. broken ... bars--(Jr 51:30). her king ... among ... Gentiles--(De 28:36). law ... no more--(2Ch 15:3). The civil and religious laws were one under the theocracy. "All the legal ordinances (prophetical as well as priestly) of the theocracy, are no more" (Psa 74:9; Eze 7:26). Jod.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Lamentations 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings