Lamentations 2:1
King James Version
11 Jun 2026
“How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!”
רֶגֶל
Foot, step, journey. Regel. The priest placed blood on the ear to hear God, the thumb to serve God, the foot to walk with God. The whole person consecrated — from hearing to doing to going.
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Israel
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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Israel. To struggle with God and prevail. The name given to Jacob. God's chosen people. Those who wrestle honestly with God.
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זָכַר
he has remembered
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זָכַר
To remember, to be mindful. Zakar. What is man that You are mindful of him? God thinks about you. That is the miracle.
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בַּת
the daughter of
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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תִּפְאָרָה
the splendor of
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תִּפְאָרָה
ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively)
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צִיּוֹן
Zion
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צִיּוֹן
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
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שָׁלַךְ
he has thrown
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שָׁלַךְ
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
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עוּב
he covers with a cloud
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עוּב
to be dense or dark, i.e. to becloud
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הֲדֹם
the footstool of
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הֲדֹם
a foot stool
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