And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
If the Lord be with us. Gideon's language betrays lack of reflection, because the very chastisements that God had brought upon His people showed His presence with, and His interest in them.