⁵ For they, their livestock, and their tents would come up like a great number of locusts; they and their camels could not be counted; they came into the land and devoured it. ⁶ Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites,^[a] and the Israelites^[b] cried out to Yahweh.

⁷ When the Israelites^[c] cried out to Yahweh on account of the Midianites,^[d]