005:030 Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady,
two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments,
A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments
embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
005:031 So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love
him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength.
The land had rest forty years.
006:001 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of
Midian seven years.
006:002 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of
Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are
in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
006:003 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;
006:004 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.
006:005 For they came up with their livestock 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.
006:006 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children
of Israel cried to Yahweh.
006:007 It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh
because of Midian,
006:008 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel:
and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I
brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of
the house of bondage;
006:009 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians,
and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them
out from before you, and gave you their land;
006:010 and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not
fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.
But you have not listened to my voice.
006:011 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which
was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite:
and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress,
to hide it from the Midianites.
006:012 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him,
Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor.
006:013 Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then
has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous
works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh
bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off,
and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
006:014 Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might,
and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?
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