¹⁶ I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a ^(A)sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the ^(B)soul to pine away; also, ^(C)you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

³¹ Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.

^33 (A)A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.

³ For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and ^[a]go against them. ⁴ So they would camp against them and ^(A)destroy the produce of the earth ^[b]as far as Gaza, and ^(B)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 ^(C)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 ^(D)very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to the Lord.