Chapter 2

Israel/Zion referred to as "...his footstool."  This is what Ezekiel's Temple is also called, sort of:

7 He said to me, "Son of man, [this is] the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die, [Eze 43:7 NASB]

This phrase:

2 ...he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers. [Lam 2:2b ESV] and still more here:

7 The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival. [Lam 2:7a ESV]

In vss 11, 12, Children languish.  The phrase "...their life is poured out on their mother's bosom..."

This verse:

14 Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading. [Lam 2:14 ESV]  I am tempted to compare this to what the evil in our country are telling us.  That killing babies is ok, that marrying your own sex is ok, that your genes do not determine what clothes you should wear.  They are lying to us about science.  They are calling facts lies and lies facts.  But these are politicians.  Where are the prophets - even the false prophets?  In the main, many religions are still calling sin what it is from the pulpit.  The Catholics say Biden is wrong about abortion.  Baptist likewise label these things sin.  There are exceptions of course.  The Episcopalians have lesbian priests and now the Methodists want to go that way also.  But to me, the voice of truth is still there among our "priests and prophets". 

2024 - Pope Francis just made it ok for priests to "bless same sex unions", so long as they don't call them "marriage".

Then a glimpse of the horror of the last days of the siege in this verse:

20 ...Should women eat the fruit of their womb... [Lam 2:20a ESV]

Things were unimaginably bad in Jerusalem during this siege.  God's wrath is a thing to be feared, avoided at any cost, because in His wrath, there is no mercy.

The chapter closes with this:

22 You summoned as if to a festival day my terrors on every side, and on the day of the anger of the LORD no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed. [Lam 2:22 ESV]

Could anything be more devastating than the destruction of those we "held and raised"?  This picture of a mother mourning murdered children...What a terrible thing is God's wrath.