Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
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La 2:1-22.
Aleph.
1. How--The title of the collection repeated here, and in
La 4:1.
covered . . . with a cloud--that is, with the darkness of ignominy.
cast down from heaven unto . . . earth--
(Mt 11:23);
dashed down from the highest prosperity to the lowest misery.
beauty of Israel--the beautiful temple
(Ps 29:2; 74:7; 96:9,
Margin;
Isa 60:7; 64:11).
his footstool--the ark (compare
1Ch 28:2, with Ps 99:5; 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.