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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 2:1 - 2:1
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Aleph
How - The title of the collection repeated here, and in Lam 4:1.
covered ... with a cloud - that is, with the darkness of ignominy.
cast down from heaven unto ... earth - (Mat 11:23); dashed down from the highest prosperity to the lowest misery.
beauty of Israel - the beautiful temple (Psa 29:2; Psa 74:7; Psa 96:9, Margin; Isa 60:7; Isa 64:11).
his footstool - the ark (compare 1Ch 28:2, with Psa 99:5; Psa 132:7). They once had gloried more in the ark than in the God whose symbol it was; they now feel it was but His “footstool,” yet that it had been a great glory to them that God deigned to use it as such.