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 purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion"  (Lamentations 2:8).  "Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian armies are here ignored!  The capture of Jerusalem, far from being God's defeat, was a victory for his righteousness.  See  Isaiah 42:24ff.  God's judicial displeasure against iniquity is a grim reality indeed for those who render themselves liable to receive it."[14]