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.