5. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.
6. Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.
7. When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian,
8. he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.