“To their mothers they say: Where is grain and wine? While fainting like corpses in the city squares, while their souls are poured into their mothers' bosoms” (Lamentations 2:12).“To their mothers they say: Where is grain and wine?” Rabbi Ḥanina said: Five loaves and spiced wine. Rabbi Simon said: Fine loaves and aged wine.114They asked for fine foods, to which they had been accustomed. This fact caused them to suffer even more when even simple foods were no longer available. “While fainting like the wounded in the city squares,” there was a woman who said to her husband: ‘Take a bracelet or an earring and ascend to the marketplace so that if you find something we will eat.’ He went to the marketplace and looked but did not find anything, and he was writhing and he died. She said to her son: ‘See what your father is doing.’ He ascended to the marketplace and saw his father dead, and he was writhing, and he died alongside him. That is what is written: “While fainting like corpses in the city squares,” this is her husband and her eldest son. “While their souls are poured into their mothers' bosoms,” a young son would seek to suckle but would not find milk, and would writhe and die.