Judges 9:11-15
Judges 9:11
But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I give up my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?’
Judges 9:12
Then the trees said to the vine, ‘You, come, reign over us!’
Judges 9:13
But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I give up my new wine, which cheers God and mankind, and go to wave over the trees?’
Judges 9:14
Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘You, come, reign over us!’
Judges 9:15
And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out of the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’