Lamentations 2:1
How LORD has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
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1 Samuel 4:22And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.
1 Chronicles 28:2Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, and my people. As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of LORD, and for the footstool of our God. And I had made
Psalms 99:5Exalt ye LORD our God, and worship at his footstool. Holy is he.
Isaiah 14:12How thou are fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How thou are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Jeremiah 30:14All who love thee have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought upon me. Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:1
The second alphabetical elegy is set to the same mournful tune with the former, and the substance of it is much the same; it begins with Ecah, as that did, "How sad is our case! Alas for us!" I. Here is the anger of Zion's God taken notice of as the cause of her calamities, ver. 1-9 . II. Here is the sorrow of Zion's children taken notice of as the effect of her calamities, ver. 10-19 . III. The complaint is made to God, and the matter referred to his compassionate consideration, ver. 20-22 . The hand that wounded… Read the whole commentary →