How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Obscurity. He continues to bewail the misery of Jerusalem.
Heaven, the highest glory, Isaias xiv. 12.
Stool; the temple, and the land. The ark fell not into the hands of the enemy. (Calmet)
The punishment which the Lord permits, is justly ascribed to Him. (Worthington)