Lamentations 2:1

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!

Cross-reference

In Lamentations 2:7, the Lord spurns His altar and abandons His sanctuary — specifying the temple destruction implied by casting down glory.

Lamentations 1:1 opens the book with the same 'How' lament over Jerusalem's desolation, mirroring the tone and subject of chapter 2's opening.

Lamentations 3:44 uses the exact phrase 'covered with a cloud' to show God's withdrawal from prayer, directly echoing Lamentations 2:1.

Lamentations 4:1 uses the identical 'How' lament structure to describe the loss of glory, echoing the opening of chapter 2.

In Lamentations 5:16, 'the crown has fallen from our head' directly parallels the casting down of Israel's glory in 2:1.

In Lamentations 1:6, the same loss of glory is depicted: Zion's beauty departs and her princes flee without strength before pursuers.

In Lamentations 1:17, Zion spreads hands with no comforter as God makes neighbors adversaries — reinforcing the divine judgment theme.

In Lamentations 3:47, the outcome is summarized: fear, snare, desolation, destruction — the calamity described in 2:1.

In Lamentations 3:2, the individual laments being led into darkness — echoing the cloud of God's anger covering Zion.

Lamentations 3:43 uses the same 'covered' imagery for God's anger ('covered with anger'), reinforcing the divine judgment theme of chapter 2.

Revelation 12:7-9 depicts Satan and his angels cast down to earth, a cosmic parallel to the fall of Israel's glory from heaven.

1 Samuel 4:21 records the name Ichabod — 'the glory has departed' — which directly echoes the loss of splendor in Zion described here.

Luke 10:18 Parallel

Luke 10:18 reports Satan falling like lightning from heaven, directly paralleling the imagery of splendor hurled down from heaven.

Ezekiel 28:14-16 pictures the anointed cherub cast from God's mountain, echoing the casting down of Israel's glory from heaven.

Ezekiel 24:21 declares God will profane His sanctuary—the very 'footstool' and 'splendor' cast down here.

In Ezekiel 7:20-22, the same divine judgment strips the temple of its beauty and hands it to foreigners—echoing God rejecting His footstool here.

Isaiah 14:12-15 describes the morning star's fall from heaven, mirroring the hurling down of Israel's splendor — a parallel image of divine judgment.

Psalm 132:7 Contrast

Psalm 132:7 invites worship at God's footstool—the very thing God has forgotten in His anger here.

Psalm 99:5 Contrast

Psalm 99:5 calls worship at God's footstool—opposite of Him forgetting it in anger here.

1 Chronicles 28:2 reverently calls the ark God's footstool—contrasting sharply with God not remembering that same footstool in His anger here.

Jeremiah 12:7 has God forsaking His house and heritage—the same abandonment of His footstool seen here.

Isaiah 1:8 Parallel

Isaiah 1:8 describes Daughter of Zion left desolate like a booth—reinforcing the same image of abandonment as here.

Ezekiel 32:7 uses the same 'cover with a cloud' image for judgment on Egypt, closely paralleling the divine covering in Lamentations 2:1.

Matthew 11:23 pronounces Capernaum's descent to Hades after being exalted, paralleling the humbling of Zion's splendor from heaven.

Luke 10:15 Parallel

Luke 10:15 repeats the same warning to Capernaum, reinforcing the theme of exalted places being brought low like Zion.