'Gates' in the Bible
Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.
I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.