7. And it came to pass when the children of Israel cried to Jehovah because of Midian,
8. that Jehovah sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
9. and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land,
10. and I said to you, I am Jehovah your God fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But ye have not hearkened to my voice.
11. And an angel of Jehovah came and sat under the terebinth that was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abi-ezrite. And his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, to secure it from the Midianites.
12. And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him, and said to him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
13. And Gideon said to him, Ah my Lord, if Jehovah be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his miracles that our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? And now Jehovah hath cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian.