Go in this strength

13Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

14Then Yahweh turned to him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”

15But he said to him, “Please, my lord, how can I save Israel? Look, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

16And Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you will strike Midian as one man.”