פירוש על איכה 2:6

He cut down. An expression of cutting, and similarly, “He will cast off like a vine,”¹⁷Iyov 15:33. [and] “your steps were cut off.”¹⁸Yirmiyahu 13:22.

Like a garden. As they cut off the vegetables of a garden.

His dwelling place. His abode.¹⁹The Kodesh Hakodoshim. (Palgei Mayim) It is written שִׁכּוֹ [to indicate] that He lightened²⁰As in Bereishis 8:1, ‘and the waters subsided’ [וישכו]. His anger against His children with the destruction of His House. [So it is expounded] in the Midrash of Lamentations.²¹Eichah Rabbah 2:10.