World English Bible
Judges 9:11
“But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?”
Verse in context — Judges 9
9
But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
10
The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.
11
But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
12
The trees said to the vine, 'Come and reign over us.
13
The vine said to them, 'Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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