In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin.
Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
Lamentations 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her splendour is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1:7 In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin.
Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore is she removed as an impurity: all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness; and she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Lamentations 1:9 Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.
The verse centers on "days", "affliction", "wanderings", "since", "people", "fell", "hand", and "adversary". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "days" and "affliction", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 6's "And from the daughter of Zion all..." into verse 8's "Jerusalem hath grievously sinned therefore is she...", so "days" and "affliction" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "days" and "affliction" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.