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 cut off all the horn of Israel"  (Lamentations 2:3).  The horn was a well-known symbol of power.  Cheyne noted that a better rendition would be "every horn."[7] "It referred to all the strongholds, especially the fortresses."[8] We especially liked Hiller's blunt rendition, "God lopped off the horns of Israel."[9] Or, as we might paraphrase it:  "God dehorned His sinful people."