Isaiah 38:12

Figures setting forth the utter frustration of his hope of life. The first is that of a nomad's tent, easily pitched and soon removed.

Mine age is departed Render: My habitation is plucked up (Cheyne). The sense "habitation" is Aramaic and Arabic, and does not occur again in the Bible (but see on ch. Isaiah 53:8). Elsewhere the word means "generation," in the sense of "contemporaries," which is obviously unsuitable here. Then follow two figures from weaving.

I have cut off Rather: I have rolled up (R.V.) as the weaver does the finished web. with pining sickness should be (as in R.V. marg.) from the thrum, the threads by which the web is attached to the loom.

from dayeven to night i.e. apparently "within twenty-four hours."