“Her gates have 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 the LORD.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.