All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: Look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.
"In the day of his fierce anger"  (Lamentations 1:12).  This day had already arrived for Jerusalem, but there is also a consciousness here of a similar day that shall arrive for the pagan nations that have humiliated Jerusalem; and the last half of the chapter will also emphasize that fact.  "Most modern commentators ignore the severity of the divine nature.  They fail to see that real goodness does not indulge evil."[22]