Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
"The nations are entered into her sanctuary"  (Lamentations 1:10).  "The magnitude of this defilement of the Temple is seen in that it was the symbol of God's presence and Israel's privilege."[18]  No Gentile was permitted to enter it; and only one Israelite could enter it, and he could do so only once in the year, namely, when the High Priest entered upon the day of Atonement.  Now, the Chaldeans had not only entered and desecrated it; they had also looted its treasures.