³ For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and ^(A)the Amalekites and ^(B)the people of the East would come up against them. ⁴ They would encamp against them ^(C)and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey. ⁵ For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come ^(D)like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.