(Isa. i. 21), "How is the faithful city become an harlot!" Jeremiah said (Lam. i. 1), "How doth the city sit solitary! Rabbi Levi saith, " The thing is like to a matron who has three friends; one saw her in her prosperity, another saw her in her dissipation, and the third saw her in her pollution. So Moses saw Israel in their glory and prosperity, and he said, " How can I myself bear your cumbrance! Isaiah saw them in their dissipation, and he said, "How is the faithful city,* etc.; and Jeremiah saw them in their pollution, and he said, " How doth the city sit solitary! B Midrash Rabbah Eicha.