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!
"Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction"  (Lamentations 1:3). This was true in two ways.  Judah had been forced into captivity by the military arm of Babylon, which resulted in captivity and servitude, but there was also a contingent of Judah, who attempted to escape their bondage by fleeing into Egypt.  Jeremiah was probably taken against his will with that group.  Cheyne wrote that, "Here the prophet is not thinking of the deportation of the captives, but of the Jews who sought refuge in foreign lands  (Jeremiah 40:11)."[9]  Dummelow also favored this understanding of  Lamentations 1:3.  "This means that the Jews sought exile in order to escape the sufferings to which they were exposed in their native land."[10]