Lamentations 2:9 — Bible Verse (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.”
Lamentations 2:9 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 2:9 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 2:9 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.”
Lamentations 2:9 — World English Bible
Lamentations 2:9 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah. ”
Lamentations 2:9 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 2:9 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes <FI>are<Fi> among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.”
Lamentations 2:9 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 2:9 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations: the law is no [more]; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.”
Lamentations 2:9 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 2:9 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Her gates are sunke to the grounde: he hath destroyed and broken her barres: her King and her princes are among the Gentiles: the Lawe is no more, neither can her Prophets receiue any vision from the Lord.”
Lamentations 2:9 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 2:9 in Context — Lamentations 2
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 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.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
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What Does Lamentations 2:9 Mean?
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