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LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 2
Jeremiah lamenteth the misery of Jerusalem, and its causes, and their enemies’ derision, Lam_2:1-17. In exhortation to true sorrow and repentance; a fervent prayer, Lam_2:18-22.
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger? It hath been formerly observed that great states and kingdoms are often in Scripture expressed under the notion of daughters, Psa_137:8 Isa_10:30 47:1,5 Jer 46:11 Lam_4:21,22: the meaning is, How hath God obscured all the beauty and glory of the church and state of the Jews!
And cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel; that is, thrown them down from the highest pitch of glory and honour, to the meanest degree of baseness and servitude.
And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger: the earth is called the Lord’s footstool, Isa_66:1 Mat_5:35 Act_7:49, but here plainly the temple is understood, called God’s footstool, 1Ch_28:2; and the whole temple seems rather to be understood than the ark, for we read of no indignity offered to the ark by the Chaldeans, more than to any other part of the temple; God had suffered the Chaldeans to burn the whole temple, and it may justly be doubted whether those other texts that mention a worshipping at God’s footstool, Psa_99:5 132:7, be not to be understood of worshipping in the temple, for it was not the privilege of all the Jews to come so near the ark as to worship before that. The reason of the complaint is God’s permission of the Chaldeans to burn the temple. See Jer_52:13.