The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
"Her young children are gone into captivity ... before the adversary"  (Lamentations 1:5;).  "They went not as a flock of lambs that follow the shepherd, but as slaves driven like cattle before the army of the Chaldeans."[12]