⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

¹⁶ I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

¹⁵ You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; And crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.

³⁸ You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

⁶ They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

¹⁸ That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

⁴ His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.

³ So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

⁴ and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

⁶ Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.

⁵¹ and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

³⁰ You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

³¹ Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.

³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

³³ The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;