Judges 9:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ This being told to Joatham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.

⁸ The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.

⁹ And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?