1And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.
2And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.
3And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;
4And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.
5For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.
6And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.
7And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,
