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.
"The Lord hath covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger"  (Lamentations 2:1).  During the exodus, God had shielded the Chosen People with a cloud, the dark side of which confronted Egypt; but now it is the remnant of Israel that faces the ugly side of the cloud!  Throughout this chapter there appears the screaming fact that it is God Himself who has brought all of the evil upon His sinful people.  "That was the wormwood and the gall in their terrible affliction."[6]