I called for ... - Rather, to “my lovers.”

While they sought their meat - literally, “for they sought food for themselves to r…

I called for. —Better, to. The “lovers,” as in Lamentations 1:2, are the former allies of Judah.

My priests…

Here the people of God complain in the person of a woman, as we have previously seen, that in their calamity they were left destitute of every comf…

I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me
Either her idols, with whom she had committed spiritual adultery, tha…

Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferi…

Here he laments the wasting away of those who have starved to death during the siege.