Yerushalayim and the Neheneh

Perek Bet give us another look, although brief, into the thoughts of Yerushalayim. She resurfaces for only two pessukim to give us a thought:

יא. כָּלוּ בַדְּמָעוֹת עֵינַי חֳמַרְמְרוּ מֵעַי נִשְׁפַּךְ לָאָרֶץ כְּבֵדִי עַל שֶׁבֶר בַּת עַמִּי בֵּעָטֵף עוֹלֵל וְיוֹנֵק 
בִּרְחֹבוֹת קִרְיָה:
11. My eyes are spent with tears, my innards burn; my heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, while infant and suckling faint in the streets of the city.

יב. לְאִמֹּתָם יֹאמְרוּ אַיֵּה דָּגָן וָיָיִן בְּהִתְעַטְּפָם כֶּחָלָל בִּרְחֹבוֹת עִיר בְּהִשְׁתַּפֵּךְ נַפְשָׁם אֶל חֵיק אִמֹּתָם:
12. They say to their mothers, "Where are corn and wine?" as they faint like one slain, in the streets of the city, while their soul ebbs away on their mothers' bosom.

Yerushalayim is focusing on the suffering of her children. She says that their souls pour out, they are faint and weak from starvation, and they lie among the wreckage in the street. She says that she has no tears left to cry. She is devastated over the fact that G-d has punished the innocent children by taking their lives, and she stops speaking altogether. 

I think this is similar to what we learned about the Neheneh in Kohelet. (Oh dear, I feel like I've written these words 436,002 times by now, but here goes!) The Neheneh starts to question G-d when he looks at the fact that the guilty go unpunished and the innocent suffer. This ultimately leads the Neheneh to lose all hope in the existence of G-d. 

Yerushalayim has yet to abandon all hope in G-d. It will be interesting to see where she goes from here in the way she views G-d.