Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
"They have given their precious things for food"  (Lamentations 1:11).  Ash pointed out the gruesome truth that, "This may very well mean that they sold their children for food.  The same word used here for `precious things' means `children' in  Hosea 9:16 and  Ezekiel 24:16."[19]