¹⁵ “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade;^(A) but if not, then let fire come out^(B) of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’^(C)

¹⁷ They too, like the great cedar, had gone down to the realm of the dead, to those killed by the sword,^(A) along with the armed men who lived in its shade among the nations.