How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
"Cast down from heaven unto the earth"  (Lamentations 2:2).  What a change there was from the glory of Solomon to the very bottom of the social ladder.  Israel at this point had become the slaves of the Gentiles.