"Go away! you are unclean!" men cry to them. "Away! Away! Dont touch us!" When they flee and wander about, people amoung the nations say, "They can stay here no longer."
Lamentations 1:1 (KJV) How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Lamentations 1:2 (KJV) 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 1:3 (KJV) Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Lamentations 1:4:The roads to Zion mourn for now one comes to her appointed feats, All her gateways ae desolate her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she is in her bitter anguish.
Lamentations 1:5 (KJV) Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 1:6 (KJV) And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.