Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 1:8

"Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward." — Lamentations 1:8 (ASV)

Therefore she is removed. —The verb is used technically for the separation of a woman under ceremonial defilement; and the daughter of Zion in her sin and shame is compared to such a woman. The figure is continued with a startling boldness. Like a woman exposed to the gaze of scorners, Jerusalem wishes to turn her back upon those who exult in the twofold nakedness of her sin and of its punishment.