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.
"They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly"  (Lamentations 2:7).  This `noise,' however was different.  It was the boisterous, profane and obscene cries of the Chaldean soldiers screaming and shouting their delight as they looted and destroyed the marvelous treasures of the Temple.  It was a horrible contrast with the sweet songs of the Temple virgins and the solemn liturgies of the priesthood.