How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!
"Among all her lovers ... none to comfort her"  (Lamentations 1:2).  "These lovers were those nations such as Egypt who had wooed her into their alliance against Babylon  (Jeremiah 27:3)."[5]  Of course, they supported Judea only so long as it served their own selfish interests to do so; and Judah's stupidity in this was most reprehensible because they ignored the urgent and repeated warnings of their holy prophets against such alliances with those false lovers.