Although her allies failed to rescue her from the Babylonians (see also Lamentations 1:2; Lamentations 4:17), it was the absence of the Lord's assistance
that devastated Jerusalem. There was a confident expectation that God would help his people (see Psalm 46:6), but because they had broken covenant with Him, His protection
over them was no more. As a result, there was no help and her foes mocked her.1 As the Babylonians laughed over her destruction, this verse serves as a warning against self-confidence (Proverbs 16:18). Affluence and security can be taken away at any time by the Lord.2
7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall.