3. Whenever the Israelites planted seeds, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other easterners would invade.
4. They would set up camp against the Israelites and destroy the land’s crops as far as Gaza, leaving nothing to keep Israel alive, not even sheep, oxen, or donkeys.
5. They would invade with their herds and tents, coming like a swarm of locusts, so that no one could count them or their camels. They came into the land to destroy it.
6. So Israel became very weak on account of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord.
7. This time when the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian,
8. the Lord sent them a prophet, who said to them, "The Lord, Israel’s God, proclaims: I myself brought you up from Egypt, and I led you out of the house of slavery.