Lamentations 2:1 Meaning and Explanation
“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!”
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Read Full Chapter →The second lament opens by marveling that the LORD has darkened Zion in anger and cast her glory down from heaven to earth.
What Does Lamentations 2:1 Mean?
Again the poem begins with 'How,' that wail of disbelief, but now the focus turns squarely on God's anger. He has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud, a darkness of judgment where once there had been light. The cloud that once led and sheltered Israel has become the shadow of wrath.
'The beauty of Israel' cast from heaven to earth pictures a glory that had been lifted high now hurled down to the ground. The temple is called his 'footstool,' the earthly place beneath his throne where his presence touched the world. That he 'remembered not' even this in the day of his anger shows how complete the judgment is. Nothing, not even the holy place, was spared in that hour.
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What does Lamentations 2:1 mean?
The second lament opens by marveling that the LORD has darkened Zion in anger and cast her glory down from heaven to earth.