Lamentations 2:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Her gates are sunk into the ground. Her gates cannot oppose the entrance of the foe into the city, because they are sunk under a mass of rubbish and earth.

He hath ... broken her bars - (Jeremiah 51:30). Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles - (Deuteronomy 28:36, "The Lord shall bring thee and thy king ... unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known").

The law is no more - (2 Chronicles 15:3, "Now, for a long season, Israel hath been ... without a teaching priest and without law"). The civil and religious laws were one under the theocracy. 'All the legal ordinances (prophetic as well as priestly) of the theocracy, are no more' (Psalms 74:9; in fulfillment of Ezekiel 7:26).

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Lamentations 2:9

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.