Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord has spread a cloud of his anger over the Daughter of Zion! He has thrown down Israel's glory from heaven to earth. He has deserted his Temple from the time he became angry.
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1 Samuel 4:22She said, “The glory has left Israel, for the Ark of God has been captured.”
1 Chronicles 28:2King David got to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people! I really wanted to build a house as a resting place for the Ark of the Lord's Agreement, as a footstool for our God. So I made plans to build it.
Psalms 99:5Give respect to the Lord our God! Bow down at his feet, for he is holy!
Isaiah 14:12Morning star, son of the dawn, how you have fallen from heaven! Destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground!
Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten about you; they don't bother looking for you anymore, because I have beaten you as if I were your enemy, the discipline of a cruel person, because of how wicked you are, because of your many sins.
Lamentations 1:12Don't you care anything about it, all you people passing by? Take a look and see! Is there any suffering as bad as mine, punished by the Lord when he became angry?
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 →