Judges 9:10-12

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁰ Then the trees said to the fig tree,
“Come and reign over us.”
¹¹ But the fig tree said to them,
“Should I stop giving
my sweetness and my good fruit,
and rule^[a] over trees?”

¹² Later, the trees said to the grapevine,
“Come and reign over us.”