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!
"Here persecutors overtook her within the straits"  (Lamentations 1:3).  This may very well be a reference to Nebuchadnezzar's capture of the fleeing Zedekiah who tried to escape the siege of Jerusalem.  Jerusalem's doom was sealed in that capture.