9:14 “So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’ 1
1 tn Or “and rule over us!”
2 tn Heb “arise.”
3 tn Heb “you and the people who are with you.”
4 tn The words “outside the city” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
3 tn Or “served”; or “followed.”
4 tn Heb “Now.”
5 tn Or “dispossessed.”
6 tn Heb “will you dispossess him [i.e., Israel; or possibly “it,” i.e., the territory]?” There is no interrogative marker in the Hebrew text.
5 tn Heb “They came to their brothers.”
6 tn Heb “brothers.”
7 tn Heb “What you?”