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!
    The titles of the books in the Hebrew Bible usually came from the very first word, in this case Ekah which may be translated into English “alas” or “how sad it is.” The scholars who translated the O.T. into Greek during the intertestamental period (and later into Syriac and Latin) applied the longer title “The Lamentations of Jeremiah.”