Judges 6:1-10
Midian Prevails Against Israel
6Then the sons of Israel adid what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh; and Yahweh gave them into the hands of bMidian seven years. 2And the 1power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves athe dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds. 3And it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would go up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go up against them. 4So they would camp against them and aruin the produce of the earth 1as far as Gaza and bleave no sustenance in Israel as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey. 5For they would go up with their livestock and their tents; they would come in alike locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to make it a ruin. 6So Israel was brought avery low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
7Now it happened when the sons of Israel cried out to Yahweh on account of Midian, 8that Yahweh sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and ahe said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of slavery. 9‘I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors and drove them out before you and gave you their land, 10and I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God; you ashall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not listened to My voice.”’”