How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
"Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not"  (Lamentations 2:9).  The ridiculous rendition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) reads, "The law is no more," being not only a false translation but an outright falsehood also.  The Law of Moses never ceased, until the Son of God nailed it to the cross.  And, as the Lord said, "Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished"  (Matthew 5:18).  The tragedy of this crooked mistake in the RSV is that it is used by radical critics as, "Notable evidence that the Torah was not regarded (when Lamentations was written) as a thing given through Moses in the far-off past."[15]  Thoughtful scholars will not be deceived by this tragic rendition in the Revised Standard Version.  We thank God that the Anchor Bible gave us another acceptable translation of this passage; "The king and the princes are among the heathen (where) there is no instruction."[16]  With regard to the word "where" which the translators have supplied in the ASV, and which this writer supplied in the Anchor Bible, it does not occur in the KJV, where it was considered unnecessary, because the word Gentiles stands adjacent to and in front of the words there is no law, plainly indicating that it was among them, the Gentiles, that God's Law was not.  There was never, in the long history of Israel after Sinai a single hour in which the Law of Moses did not exist.