Lamentations 2:1
How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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1 Samuel 4:22And she said, The glory hath departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
1 Chronicles 28:2Then David the king stood upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me , I had in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
Psalms 99:5Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Isaiah 14:12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Jeremiah 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisements of a cruel one, for the multitude of thy iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted me 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 →