1 Samuel 13:6

13:6 The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, ¹  and cisterns.

Yesaya 5:30

5:30 At that time ²  they will growl over their prey, ³ 

it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. ⁴ 

One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster,

clouds will turn the light into darkness. ⁵ 

¹ tn Or perhaps “vaults.” This rare term also occurs in Judg 9:46, 49. Cf. KJV “high places”; ASV “coverts”; NAB “caverns”; NASB “cellars”; NIV, NCV, TEV “pits”; NRSV, NLT “tombs.”

² tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

³ tn Heb “over it”; the referent (the prey) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “like the growling of the sea.”

⁵ tn Heb “and one will gaze toward the land, and look, darkness of distress, and light will grow dark by its [the land’s?] clouds.”

sn The motif of light turning to darkness is ironic when compared to v. 20. There the sinners turn light (= moral/ethical good) to darkness (= moral/ethical evil). Now ironically the Lord will turn light (= the sinners’ sphere of existence and life) into darkness (= the judgment and death).