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
afootstool in the day of his anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the
habitations of Jacob, and hath not apitied: he hath thrown
down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought
them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the
princes thereofa.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger
all the horn of Israel: he hath adrawn back his right hand
from before the enemy, and he bburned against Jacob like a
flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an
aenemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and
slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the
daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
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2a he hath polluted the kingdom and the
princes thereof There is a logic to setting at the feet of the
Lord the cause, or at least the allowance, of all things. The rules of the
Jews, their 'princes' or elders as it were, were not merely polluting themselves;
it was the Lord who had done or allowed them to so pollute themselves. In a
very general sense this may be seen to be true, after all who was it that had
given to man his own agency? Yet without such agency given there could be
also argued that neither is there a choice to choose good as well as evil.
The underlying concept of the Lord's plan was that man would be able to choose
for himself and thus by so doing, man might maturate and become even as God.
This was a part of the argument put to Eve by Lucifer in the garden. He told
her that it needs be that she partake of fruit of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil and thus by so doing to become even as the Gods (Genesis 3:5).
But with such knowledge and choice, man must learn to chose the good over the
evil and that is whereby that he does become even as the Gods are.
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