Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 1:2

"She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies." — Lamentations 1:2 (ASV)

She weepeth sore in the night. —The intensity of the sorrow is emphasized by the fact that the tears do not cease even in the time that commonly brings rest and repose to mourners. The “lovers” and the “friends” are the nations, Egypt (Jeremiah 2:36), Edomites, Moabites, and others, with which Judah had been in alliance, and which now turned against her. (Ezekiel 25:3–6; Jeremiah 40:14, for instances of their hostility, and especially Lamentations 4:21.)