Lamentations 2:1

How has the Lord darkened in his wrath 1 The daughter of Zion! 1 He has cast down the glory of Israel 1 From heaven to earth, 1 And has not remembered his footstool. 1

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In The King James Version

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

In Context

2In the day of his wrath 1 The Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, 1 And not spared: 1 He has brought down in his fury 1 All the beautiful things of Jacob; 1 He has brought down to the ground 1 The strongholds of the daughter of Judah: 1 He has profaned her king and her princes. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:22And they said, The glory of Israel is departed, forasmuch as the ark of the Lord is taken.

1 Chronicles 28:2And David stood in the midst of the assembly, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and a place for the feet of our Lord, and I prepared materials suitable for the building:

Psalms 99:5For the Lord is good, his mercy is forever; 1 And his truth endures to generation and generation.

Isaiah 14:12How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.

Jeremiah 30:14Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Edom; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

Lamentations 1:12All ye that pass by the way, 1 Turn, and see if there is sorrow like to my sorrow, 1 Which has happened to me. 1 The Lord who spoke by me 1 Has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 1

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 →

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