Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 1:9

"Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself." — Lamentations 1:9 (ASV)

Her filthiness. —The picture of pollution is pushed to its most loathsome extreme. The very skirts of the garment are defiled.

She remembers not... —Better, she remembered not. It was her recklessness as to the future (Compare to Deuteronomy 32:29, for the phrase) which brought her down to this “wonderful” and extreme prostration.

O Lord, behold my affliction. —The words are not those of the prophet, but of Zion, anticipating the dramatic personification which begins systematically at Lamentations 1:12.