Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 2:1
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Lamentations2:1
CHAPTER (ELEGY) 2
La 2:1-22.
Aleph.
1. How--The title of the collection repeated here, and in La 4:1.
covered ... with a cloud--that is, with the darkness of ignominy.
cast down from heaven unto ... earth--(Mt 11:23); dashed down from the highest prosperity to the lowest misery.
beauty of Israel--the beautiful temple (Psa 29:2; 74:7; 96:9, Margin; Is 60:7; 64:11).
his footstool--the ark (compare 1Ch 28:2, with Psa 99:5; 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.
Beth.
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