Lamentations 1:4 - Exposition

The ways of Zion do mourn . The reads leading to Jerusalem, usually so thronged with pilgrims, are desolate and "mourn" (comp. Lamentations 2:8 and Isaiah 3:26 ; Isaiah 14:31 ). All her gates are desolate. No one goes in or out of Jerusalem, and there is no concourse of citizens in the shady recess of the gates. The virgins are afflicted. So Zephaniah 3:18 . The sorrow was on account of the cessation of the festival, in the music of which they took a leading part (comp. Psalms 68:25 ).