But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBut 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?
But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
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?
But the fig-tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy