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.
9. I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land.