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 violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden"  (Lamentations 2:6).  Solomon's temple was not God's tabernacle to begin with, but Solomon's corrupted replacement of it.  Nevertheless the Jews had trusted in it as their security and salvation.  The wonder expressed here is that God removed it and destroyed it so easily, "as if of a garden." "God removed his Temple as easily as a farmer removes a vintage booth (a tiny arbor), which had served its purpose, from a garden."[12]  In summer time, one may often see such little shelters near orchards and gardens, where the sellers of fruits, etc, could be sheltered from the sun.