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!
    It may be also that the author used this technique in order to give a sense of completeness to the expression of grief. When one goes from a to a (so to speak) in expressing his grief he seems to have said all that can be said. (Psalm 25; 34; 35; 111; 112; 119; 145; Prov. 31:10-31).