&#8220;Pardon me, Sir,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders about which our fathers told us, saying, &#8216;Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?&#8217; But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.&#8221;