Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud - The women in the eastern countries wear veils, and often very costly ones. Here, Zion is represented as being veiled by the hand of God' s judgment. And what is the veil? A dark cloud, by which she is entirely obscured.
Instead of Adonai , lord, twenty-four of Dr. Kennicott' s MSS., and some of the most ancient of my own, read Yehovah , Lord, as in Lamentations 2:2.
The beauty of Israel - His Temple.
His footstool - The ark of the covenant, often so called. The rendering of my old MS. Bible is curious: -
\ri720 And record not of his litil steging-stole of his feet, in the dai of his woodnesse.
To be wood signifies, in our ancient language, to be mad.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 99:5
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