Judges 9:14-16

International Standard Version

¹⁴ “So all the trees told the bramble bush,
    ‘Hey you! Come and reign over us!’
¹⁵ Then the bramble bush replied to the trees,
    ‘If you really are consecrating^[a] me to rule you,
        come and put your confidence in my shade;
    but if not, may fire spring out from the bramble bush
        and burn up the cedars^[b] of Lebanon…’