and pillage (1:7, 10, 21; 2:16). There are the passers-by who either say nothing to comfort Lady Zion (1:12), or express only astonishment (2:15). There are the princes, priests, prophets and elders, all of whom have failed to prevent the disaster and now suffer in it along with the poorest slaves (1:19; 2:9–10, 14; 4:5, 7–8, 13; 5:12–14). There are the strapping young men and soldiers who have been trampled on, and the young girls who have been raped and humiliated in the dust (1:15; 2:10, 21; 5:11).