Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
Note This chapter is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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!
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- How
- Lamentations 1:1; Lamentations 4:1
- covered
- Lamentations 3:43, 44; Ezekiel 30:18; Ezekiel 32:7, 8; Joel 2:2
- and cast
- Isaiah 14:12–15; Ezekiel 28:14–16; Matthew 11:23; Luke 10:15, 18; Revelation 12:7–9
- the beauty
- 1 Samuel 4:21; 2 Samuel 1:19; Isaiah 64:11; Ezekiel 7:20–22; Ezekiel 24:21
- his footstool
- 1 Chronicles 28:2; Psalm 99:5; Psalm 132:7