Judges 9:11-13

Modern English Version

¹¹ “Yet the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I stop making my sweet aroma and my fruit, to go and sway over the trees?’

¹² “So the trees said to the grapevine, ‘You come and rule over us.’

¹³ “Yet the grapevine said to them, ‘Should I stop making my fresh wine, which cheers God and men, to go and sway over the trees?’