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.
"They are gone without strength before the pursuer"  (Lamentations 1:6). "This refers to Zedekiah and the nobles who have turned tail and fled away."[14] Also, there appears here a possible excuse for their capture. They fled "without strength," (a reference to the famine (2 Kings 25:4). From hunger and starvation they were weakened and easily outrun and captured by the Chaldeans.