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.
It should be noted that up through  Lamentations 1:11a, the perspective of the narrator is that of an onlooker, speaking of Jerusalem in the third person; but in  Lamentations 1:11b, there is a dramatic shift to the first person; and in the balance of the chapter, the ruined city herself speaks in the first person.  This is why the versions divide the chapter into two paragraphs (1)  Lamentations 1:1-11a, and (2)  Lamentations 1:11b-22.[20]