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Her gates are 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.
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A Complete Collapse
Commentators explain that the destruction was not merely physical. The verse describes a total societal collapse: the political leadership (king and princes) was exiled, the covenantal Law could no longer be practiced, and direct communication from God through prophets ceased. The entire structure of the nation—physical, political, and spiritual—was dismantled by God's judgment.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Her gates are sunk into the ground - So completely destroyed, that one might suppose they had been swallowed up in an abyss.
Her k…
19th Century
Anglican
Her gates ... —The picture of ruin is completed. The gates are broken, and hidden by heaps of rubbish as if they had been…
16th Century
Protestant
He again relates in other words what he had said: that the walls of Jerusalem had fallen. He now speaks of the gates, saying that they had sunk…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Her gates are sunk into the ground Either the gates of the city or temple, or both; being broke and demolished, and laid …
A sad representation is made here of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the focus seems mostly to be on the hand of the Lord in th…
13th Century
Catholic
Here he weeps over the destruction of people, considering three groups:
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