Judges 6:12-16

New King James Version

¹² And the ^(A)Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is ^(B)with you, you mighty man of valor!”

¹³ Gideon said to Him, “O ^[a]my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And ^(C)where are all His miracles ^(D)which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has ^(E)forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

¹⁴ Then the Lord turned to him and said, ^(F)“Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. ^(G)Have I not sent you?”

¹⁵ So he said to Him, “O ^[b]my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed ^(H)my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

¹⁶ And the Lord said to him, ^(I)“Surely I will be with you, and you shall ^[c]defeat the Midianites as one man.”