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.
"God, in these verses, is represented as a furious warrior, who with irresistible power destroyed everything that Judah had trusted in.  They had stopped trusting in God, and instead were relying on might  (Lamentations 2:2), palaces  (Lamentations 2:5), strongholds  (Lamentations 2:5), the physical Temple  (Lamentations 2:6)."[11]  All these were destroyed.