Judges 6:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹² The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, ‘The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior.’ ¹³ Gideon answered him, ‘But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, “Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?” But now the Lord has cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian.’ ¹⁴ Then the Lord turned to him and said, ‘Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian; I hereby commission you.’