Lamentations 2:1

The Lord in anger has covered Zion with a dark cloud and cast down Israel's glory, forgetting his footstool. It stresses that God himself authored the city's downfall.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 132:7“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.
• 1 Chr 28:2Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
• Lam 3:43–44“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
• Luke 10:18He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
• Ezek 28:14–16You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, so that you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.
• Rev 12:7–9There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
• Isa 14:12–15How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
• Ps 99:5Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
• Ezek 30:18At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
• Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
• Matt 11:23You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.
• Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
• Ezek 7:20–22As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
• Isa 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
• Ezek 32:7–8When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
• 2 Sam 1:19“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
• Lam 1:1How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!
• Luke 10:15You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.
• Lam 4:1How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
• 1 Sam 4:21She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel”; because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

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