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Lamentations 2:1

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How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

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Lamentations 2:1 in other translations

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:1 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 2:1 in context

  1. 1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
    He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
    and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
  2. 2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
    without pity.
    He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
    He has brought them down to the ground.
    He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
  3. 3He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
    He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
    He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
    which devours all around.