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.
"He hath thrown down ... the strongholds ... of Judah"  (Lamentations 2:3). But was it not Babylon that did that?  No!  It was God who did it; Babylon was merely God's instrument.