Judges 6:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian.”

Cross References

Genesis 25:22

The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is to be this way, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Psalm 27:9

Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger, you who have been my help. Do not cast me off; do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!

Psalm 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:

Psalm 44:2

you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;

Psalm 44:9

Yet you have rejected us and shamed us and have not gone out with our armies.

Psalm 89:49

Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

Isaiah 41:17

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Isaiah 63:11

Then they remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put within them his holy spirit,

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? Your great pity and your compassion are withheld from me.

Jeremiah 23:33

When this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the Lord?” you shall say to them, “You are the burden. I will cast you off, says the Lord.”

Romans 8:31

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Deuteronomy 29:24

they and indeed all the nations will wonder, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused this great display of anger?’

Deuteronomy 31:17

My anger will be kindled against them on that day. I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become easy prey, and many terrible troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon us because our God is not in our midst?’

Judges 6:1

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Judges 6:12

The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior.”