Cross references

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground;

He has destroyed and shattered their bars.

Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations,

the law is no more,

and even her prophets

find no vision from the LORD.

Lamentations 2:9 BSB

Lamentations 2:9 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 7:26 (7 votes) and Hosea 3:4 (5 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Deuteronomy 28 to Micah 3.

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Which verses does Lamentations 2:9 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

  2. Hosea 3:45 votes

    For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

  3. For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.

  4. And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

  5. Psalm 74:94 votes

    There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.

  6. Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them. Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”

  7. The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

  8. The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

  9. Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

  10. Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive. As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD. …

  11. “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.

Which verses point to Lamentations 2:9?

The 10 strongest of 19.