For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in (A)like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it. So Israel was brought (B)very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to the Lord.

Now it came about when the sons of Israel cried to the Lord on account of Midian,

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They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(A) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(B) they invaded the land to ravage it. Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out(C) to the Lord for help.

When the Israelites cried out(D) to the Lord because of Midian,

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