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.
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Gill's Exposition
Her gates are sunk into the ground,.... Either the gates of the city or temple, or both; being broke and demolished, and laid level with the ground, and covered with rubbish; for as for the Midrash,…
Barnes' Notes
Her gates are sunk into the ground - So completely destroyed, that one might suppose they had been swallowed up in an abyss. Her king - The prophet’s lamentation, occupied before chiefly with the…
Adam Clarke
Her gates are sunk into the ground - The consequence of their being long thrown down and neglected. From this it appears that the captivity had already lasted a considerable time.
Her king and her…
It is a very sad representation which is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel, of Zion and Jerusalem; but the emphasis in these verses seems to be laid all along upon the hand…
Cambridge Bible
Her gates, etc.] The Targ. preserves a tradition that the enemy slew a pig and sprinkled the blood over them.
destroyed and broken One of the verbs must be struck out for the sake of metre.
Her king ……
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