וַיֵּצֵ֥א מן־בת־[מִבַּת־] צִיּ֖וֹן כָּל־הֲדָרָ֑הּ הָי֣וּ שָׂרֶ֗יהָ כְּאַיָּלִים֙ לֹא־מָצְא֣וּ מִרְעֶ֔ה וַיֵּלְכ֥וּ בְלֹא־כֹ֖חַ לִפְנֵ֥י רוֹדֵֽף׃ (ס)
At nawala sa anak na babae ng Zion ang lahat ng kanyang karilagan; ang kanyang mga pinuno ay naging tulad ng mga usang hindi makasumpong ng pastulan, at sila'y lumakad nang walang lakas sa harap ng humahabol.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“Gone from the fair Zion” [1:6]. All the beauty has departed from the city of Zion. Her leaders are like stags that do not find pastures to feed and go without strength before their pursuers.
Rashi
Like harts who could find no pasture. Like harts who did not find pasture and have no strength to flee,26Alternatively, her nobles acted like harts who abandon their young when there is no pasture. Similarly, Bnei Yisroel’s leaders did not chastise their brethren, but rather abandoned them. (Palgei Mayim) for their strength has been weakened by hunger.
Ibn Ezra
It is missing the word "asher" (אשר) after "ke'ilim," and similarly, "kamayim layam makhisim" (כמים לים מכסים) means "like waters cover the sea."
Rashi
Before the pursuer. Every רֹדֵף in Scripture is defective,27I.e., it is spelled without a ‘vav’. but this one רוֹדֵף is full,28I.e., it is spelled with a vav. for they were totally pursued. Therefore the liturgic author composed, “I have been totally pursued, but the year of my redemption has not come.”29Selichos for the second day of Aseres Yemei Teshuvah. [Also,] “and the year of my redemption has come,”30Yeshayahu 63:4. is spelled defectively גְּאֻלַי.31Without a vav. In our editions it is spelled full [גאולי]. However, the prophecy in Yeshayahuu 59:20 states, “A redeemer [גואל—spelled full] will come to Tzion,” to indicate a “total redemption.” (Eichah Rabbah 1:33)