Lamentations 2:9
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Lamentations 2:9 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
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.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
In die Erde gesunken sind ihre Tore, zerstört und zerschlagen hat er ihre Riegel; ihr König und ihre Fürsten sind unter den Nationen, kein Gesetz ist mehr; auch ihre Propheten erlangen kein Gesicht von Jehova.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Sus puertas fueron echadas por tierra, destruyó y quebrantó sus cerrojos: su rey y sus príncipes están entre las gentes donde no hay ley; sus profetas tampoco hallaron visión de Jehová.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Suas portas foram lançadas por terra, destruiu e quebrou seus ferrolhos; sua rei e seus príncipes estão entre as nações onde não há a Lei; nem seus profetas acham visão alguma do SENHOR.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
Os portões dela afundaram na terra; Ele já destruiu e quebrou os seus ferrolhos. O rei e os príncipes dela estão no meio dos gentios, onde não há mais lei, e seus profetas não encontram as visões de Yahweh.
📖 Lamentations 2:9 in Context
7The 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.
8The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9Her 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.
10The 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.
11Mine 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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