The song laments about the enemy coming and destroying everything; death is mowing away everyone, from the biggest to the smallest. Not even the royal family is spared. No one is safe anywhere. And the number of people killed is so great that they cannot even have a normal burial. This indicates the beginning of the exile, in the year 586 BC.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;