Passage
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.
Lamentations 1:9 (DBY)
Nearby Context
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.
Lamentations 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her precious things; for she hath seen the nations enter into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their precious things for food to revive [their] soul. See, Jehovah, and consider, for I am become vile.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "impurity", "skirts", "remembered", "latter", "came", "down", "wonderfully", and "hath". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "impurity" and "skirts", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 8's "Jerusalem hath grievously sinned therefore is she..." into verse 10's "The adversary hath spread out his hand...", so "impurity" and "skirts" 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 "impurity" and "skirts" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.