Judges 9:7-9

Lexham English Bible

⁷And they told Jotham, and he went up and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and he cried out loud^[a] and said to them, “Listen to me, lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

⁸“The trees went certainly,
    to anoint a king over themselves.
And they said to the olive tree,
    ‘Rule over us.’
⁹And the olive tree replied,
    ‘Should I stop producing my oil,
        which by me gods and men are honored,
        to go sway over the trees?’