Israel Oppressed by Midian

6 Then the sons of Israel ^(A)did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of ^(B)Midian seven years. ² The ^[a]power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves ^(C)the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds. ³ For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and ^[b]go against them. ⁴ So they would camp against them and ^(D)destroy the produce of the earth ^[c]as far as Gaza, and ^(E)leave no sustenance in Israel as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey. ⁵ For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in ^(F)like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it. ⁶ So Israel was brought ^(G)very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to the Lord.

⁷ Now it came about when the sons of Israel cried to the Lord on account of Midian, ⁸ that the Lord sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and ^(H)he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of ^[d]slavery. ⁹ I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before you and gave you their land, ¹⁰ and I said to you, “I am the Lord your God; you ^(I)shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not ^[e]obeyed Me.”’”