Judges 9:12-16

Then the trees said to the vine, ‘You, come, reign over us!’

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?’

Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘You, come, reign over us!’

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.’

“Now then, if you have acted with honesty and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have dealt with him as he deserved—