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!
"All her friends, ... are become her enemies"  (Lamentations 1:2).  "The prophecy of Isaiah has come true  (Isaiah 39:5-7; 47:8,9)."[6]  The mighty Jerusalem, once the great capital of Solomon's extensive empire, to which many nations paid tribute, has now fallen to cruel and arrogant conquerors. Once respected and honored, now hated and despised; once flourishing and prosperous, now forsaken and deserted, her Temple looted and burned, her walls broken down, her population butchered or deported, except for the poorest of the land, her condition was pitiful indeed.  "And her plight was made even worse by the pagan environment."[7]