Judges 9:13-15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ But the vine said to them,
    ‘Shall I stop producing my wine
        that cheers gods and mortals,
        and go to sway over the trees?’
¹⁴ So all the trees said to the bramble,
    ‘You come and reign over us.’
¹⁵ And the bramble said to the trees,
    ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you,
        then come and take refuge in my shade;
    but if not, let fire come out of the bramble
        and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’