I called for ... - Rather, to “my lovers.”
While they sought their meat - literally, “for they sought food for themselves to revive their souls.” Complete the sense by adding, “and found none.”
Related Commentaries of Lamentations 1:19
Lamentations 1:19
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.