Judges 6:11-16

Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak tree in Ophrah belonging to Joash the Abiezrite. Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites. The angel of the LORD appeared and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.” Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, then why has all this happened to us? Where are all His miracles that our fathers told us about? They said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us out of Egypt?’ Yet now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this strength of yours. Save Israel from the control of Midian. Have I not sent you?” And he said to Him, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” Then the LORD said to him, “But I will be with you, and you will strike the Midianites as one man.”