Judges 6:5 BBE

³  And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

⁴  And 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.

⁵  For 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.

⁶  And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.

⁷  And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,