It is not always clear where a new section of the poem begins. While the stanzas of the poem (marked by a letter of the Hebrew alphabet) may indicate a transition, it is not always the case. Between Lamentations 3:47 and Lamentations 3:48 a noticeable transition is observed. There is a switch from plural to singular. It seems that the writer had previously lamented the misery of the people as a whole, while he then reverts to describing his reaction to it. The writer continues this more isolated and personal reflection to the end of the poem. In this, he pleads the case of his people before God.1
48 my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.