Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.
Gideon could not understand why the Israelites were suffering as they were, if Yahweh was indeed with His people (Judges 6:13; cf. Deuteronomy 31:17). He failed to realize that their condition was the result of their abandoning God, not His abandoning them.