Judges 9:7-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁷ Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on the top of ^(A)Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and called out. Thus he said to them, “Listen to me, O men of Shechem, that God may listen to you. ⁸ Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’ ⁹ But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my fatness with ^[a]which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees?’