General Information:

Jotham continues telling the parable he begins in Judges 9:7, where the trees represent the Israelites.

The trees said to the vine

In this parable, Jotham describes the trees and the vine as doing things that humans do. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parables and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification)