예레미야애가 1:2의 주석

She weeps bitterly. Weeping twice over the two destructions [of the Beis Hamikdosh].¹⁴Rashi is explaining the reason for the double verb בכו תבכה. Alternatively, Yerusholayim weeps, and God, as it were, also weeps. (Yalkut Me’am Lo’ez)

In the night. For the Beis Hamikdosh was burned at night, as the master said, “at the time of evening they set it on fire.”¹⁵Maseches Ta’anis 29a. Another explanation of “in the night,” [is that] the night of the weeping of the spies on the ninth of Av caused it to happen to them.¹⁶Ibid. Another explanation of “in the night,” is that whoever weeps at night, the one who hears his voice weeps along with him.¹⁷Maseches Sanhedrin 104b.

Her tear on her cheek. Because she cries constantly.¹⁸Alternatively, her pain and suffering were so intense that she did not bother to wipe away her tears. (Yalkut Me’am Lo’ez)

All of her friends. Her lovers.¹⁹I.e., the prophets who predicted only her doom. (Palgei Mayim) Alternatively, her former allies who abandoned her in her time of crisis.