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Jotham’s Parable

Judges 9:11

In 11 translations

BSB
But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
KJV
But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
WEB
“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?’
ASV
But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
LSV
And the fig says to them, Have I ceased from my sweetness, and my good increase, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?
YLT
And the fig saith to them, Have I ceased from my sweetness, and my good increase, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?
DBY
But the fig-tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?
DRC
And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?
GNV
But the fig tree answered them, Should I forsake my sweetenesse, and my good fruite, and goe to aduance me aboue the trees?
JPS
But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees?
LXXE
But the fig-tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruits, and go to be promoted over the trees?

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ הַתְּאֵנָ֔ה הֶחֳדַ֨לְתִּי֙ אֶת־מָתְקִ֔י וְאֶת־תְּנוּבָתִ֖י הַטּוֹבָ֑ה וְהָ֣לַכְתִּ֔י לָנ֖וּעַ עַל־הָעֵצִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ἡ συκῆ, μὴ ἀπολείψασα ἐγὼ τὴν γλυκύτητά μου καὶ τὰ γεννήματά μου τὰ ἀγαθὰ, πορεύσομαι κινεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν ξύλων;

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◆ Usurpation by Abimelech

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  • Luke 13:6–7Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I…

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