"Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."
Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.