Judges 6:12-14
6:12 The Lord’s messenger appeared and said to him, “The Lord is with you, courageous warrior!”
6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, 1 but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster 2 overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, 3 ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
6:14 Then the Lord himself 4 turned to him and said, “You have the strength. 5 Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! 6 Have I not sent you?”
1 tn Heb “But my lord.”
2 tn Heb “all this.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 sn Some interpreters equate the Lord and the messenger in this story, but they are more likely distinct. In vv. 22-23 the Lord and Gideon continue to carry on a conversation after the messenger has vanished (v. 21).
5 tn Heb “Go in this strength of yours.”
6 tn Heb “the hand of Midian.”