Lamentations 2:1

How hath Adonoi covered Bat Tziyon 1 with a cloud in His anger, 1 and hurled down from Shomayim 1 unto Eretz the tiferet Yisroel, 1 and remembered not His hadom (footstool) 1 in the Day of His Wrath! 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

2Adonoi hath swallowed up 1 all the habitations of Ya'akov, and hath not pitied; 1 He hath torn down in His Wrath 1 the strongholds of Bat Yehudah; 1 He hath brought them down to the ground; 1 chillel (He hath defiled) the mamlachah and the sarim (princes) thereof. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:22And she said, The kavod is departed from Yisroel; for the Aron HaElohim is captured.

1 Chronicles 28:2Then Dovid HaMelech stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people. As for me, I had in mine levav to build a Bais Menuchah for the Aron Brit Hashem, and for the hadom (footstool) of Eloheinu, and had made ready to build;

Psalms 99:5Exalt ye Hashem Eloheinu, 1 and worship at His footstool; for He is kadosh. 1

Isaiah 14:12How art thou fallen from Shomayim, 1 O Heilel Ben Shachar (Bright One of the Dawn, Day Star, Lucifer)! 1 How art thou cast down to the earth, 1 thou, which hast laid low the Goyim! 1

Jeremiah 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; 1 they seek thee not; 1 for I have wounded thee with the makkat oyev, 1 with the musar (chastisement) of a cruel one, 1 for the multitude of thine avon, because thy sins were increased. 1

Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? 1 Consider, and see 1 if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, 1 which is done unto me, 1 wherewith Hashem hath afflicted me 1 in the Yom Charon Af (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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