The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
"My priests ... and elders ... gave up the ghost ... while they sought for food"  (Lamentations 1:19).  "This simply means they died of hunger, and that the young men and maidens were taken away as captives."[29] "It was indeed a terrible famine when even the priests and elders starved to death."[30]