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 theme of the book is a lament over the terrible woes which had fallen upon sinful Judah and over the destruction of the Holy City and the Temple of God. The books consists of four funeral hymns (dirges), ch. 1-4; and one prayer, ch. 5 written in those agonizing days following the destruction of Jerusalem.