Lamentations 1:13

From above. That is, from heaven.

My bones. This same expression is often used in the sense of the “very self” (see Gen. 7:13, “in the selfsame day”). The destruction is so complete that it is as if fire from heaven had struck the very heart of Jerusalem (see Isa. 31:9).

Turned me back. Literally, “caused me to return.” The prophet makes a forceful play on words: he uses the same Hebrew word (see on v. 11) to describe the refreshing of physical life that the people vainly sought; now here, instead of their lives being “caused to return,” they themselves are “caused to turn back” by God from the paths of sin.

Faint. Literally, “sick.” Note the three judgments: fire, a net, and sickness.