Judges 9:13-15

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¹³But the grape vine asked them,
    ‘Should I leave my new wine,
        which cheers God and man,
    and go take dominion over trees?’

¹⁴“So all the trees told the bramble bush,
    ‘Hey you! Come and reign over us!’
¹⁵Then 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…’

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Judges 9:15 Or anointing
Judges 9:15 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae; and so throughout the book

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Judges 9:13-15

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