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How Lonely Lies the City! The City in Sorrow: A Cry from the Depths of Desolation. While Lamentations 1 paints a harsh and sorrowful picture of Jerusalem, it serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God and a call to repentance.
1 How lonely sits the city. that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces. has become a slave. 2 She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers.
How lonely sits the city: Writing after the catastrophe of Jerusalem’s defeat, Jeremiah thought of the contrast between happy, prosperous Jerusalem and the lonely, empty, conquered city after the Babylonian conquest.
As people of faith, we turn to the Bible and look for Bible verses about loneliness. We also search for stories of loneliness in the Bible that can give us hope and remind us that we are not alone.
Each verse is divided into three lines, each line beginning, in the Hebrew, with the same letter. The opening picture reminds us of the well-known Judœa capta, a woman sitting under a palm-tree, on the Roman medals struck after the destruction of Jerusalem. How is she become.
• In chapter 1, Jeremiah mourns for Jerusalem and Judea as it lays in ruin by the raid and destruction of Babylon, “How lonely sits the city that was full of people! She has become like a widow who was once great among the nations!
“How lonely sits the city / That was full of people!” (Lamentations 1:1), so goes the beginning of Lamentations. The city in question was none other than Jerusalem. Jeremiah walked through the streets and alleys of the Holy City and saw nothing but pain, suffering, and destruction in the wake of the Babylonian invasion of 586 BC.
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