All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: Look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.
"The yoke of my transgressions ... are come upon my neck"  (Lamentations 1:14).  "This is a powerful example of a people reaping what they have sown."[23] In the days of their kings, as for example in the case of Solomon, they had enslaved the residue of the peoples of Canaan; now they themselves were enslaved.  The metaphor employed here is from the plowman.  "As he binds the yoke upon the necks of the oxen, so God compels Judah (and all men) to bear the burden of their sins."[24]