Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 2:1

1 HOw hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger , and cast down from heaven to the earth the daughter of Israel , and remembred not his foot-stool in the day of his anger !

It hath been formerly observed that great States and Kingdoms are often in Scripture expressed under the notion of daughters, Psal. 37.8. Isai. 47.1.5. chap. 4.21, 22. Ier. 46.11. Isa. 10.30. the meaning is, how hath God obscured all the beauty and glory of the Church and State of the Jews.

That is thrown them down from the highest pitch of glory, and honour to the meanest degree of baseness and servitude.

The Earth is called the Lords foot-stool, Isa. 66.1. Matth. 5.35. Acts 7.49. but here Plainly the Temple is understood called Gods foot-stool, 1 Chron. 28.2. and the whole Temple seems rather to be understood, than the Ark, for we read of no indignity offered to the Ark of the Chaldeans, more then 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 Gods foot-stool, Psal. 99.5. and 132.7. be not to be understood of worshipping in the Temple, for it was not the priviledge of all the Jews to come so near the Ark as to worship before that, the reason of the complaint is Gods permission of the Chaldeans to burn the Temple. See Ier. 52.13.