Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(Lam. 2:1-22)
How--The title of the collection repeated here, and in Lamentations 4:1.
covered . . . with a cloud--that is, with the darkness of ignominy.
cast down from heaven unto . . . earth-- (Matthew 11:23); dashed down from the highest prosperity to the lowest misery.
beauty of Israel--the beautiful temple (Psalms 29:2; Psalms 74:7; Psalms 96:9, Margin; Isaiah 60:7; Isaiah 64:11).
his footstool--the ark (compare 1 Chronicles 28:2, with Psalms 99:5; Psalms 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.
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