Bisisu 15
1 Fa: no agoane widi faimu esoga, Sa: masane da ea uda ba: la asi. E da goudi mano ema imunusa: gaguli asi. E da amo uda ea ada ema amane sia: i, “Na da na uda ea diasuga golili sa: imu.” Be eda da mae masa: ne sia: i.
During the time that they harvested wheat, Samson took a young goat to Timnah as a present for his wife. He planned to sleep with [EUP] his wife, but her father would not let him go into [her room].
2 E da Sa: masane ema amane sia: i, “Na da dia nadiwi dafawane higa: i amo dawa: iou. Amaiba: le, na da e amo dia dogolegei ema i dagoi. Be di da ea eya a: fini noga: idafa lamu da defea.”
He said to Samson, “I really thought that you hated her. So I gave her to the man who had been your best man at the wedding, and she married him. But look, her younger sister is [RHQ] more beautiful than she is. You can marry her!”
3 Be Sa: masane da ougili amane sia: i, “Defea! Na da wali Filisidini dunuma mae dawa: le gasa bagade hamomu.”
Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
4 Amaiba: le, e da asili, fogisi 300 agoane gagadole lai. E da fogisi aduna aduna la: goga gilisili la: gili, ilia la: gisu bagele amoga hanu bagesi.
Then he went out [into the fields] and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together, two-by-two. He fastened torches to each pair of tails.
5 Amalalu, e da hanu ulagisili, fogisi da Filisidini ilia gagoma ifabi amoga masa: ne asunasisiagai. E da amo hou hamobeba: le, Filisidini dunu ilia gagoma hame fai dialu, amola olife ifa huluane laluga nene dagoi ba: i.
Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the fields of the Philistines. The fire [from the torches] burned all the grain to the ground, including the grain that had been cut and piled in bundles. The fire also burned down their grapevines and their olive trees.
6 Filisidini dunu ilia da amo hou nowa da hamobela: adole ba: loba, ilia da Sa: masane da hamoi sia: i nabi. Bai Dimina dunu amo esoa: da ea udalai amo samogene, ea dogolegei ema i dagoiba: le. Amalalu, Filisidini dunu da amo uda lale, medole laluga gobesi. Amola ilia da ea ada diasu laluga ulagili sali.
The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” Someone told them, “Samson did it. He married a woman from Timnah, but then his father-in-law gave her to the man who was Samson’s best man at the wedding, and she married him.” So the Philistines went [to Timnah] and got the woman and her father, and burned them to death.
7 Sa: masane da ilima amane sia: i, “Dilia da hou agoane hamonanebeba: le, na da Gode ba: ma: ne dafawane sia: sa. Na da mae fisidigili, dilima dabe imunu.”
Samson [found out about that, and he] said to them, “Because you have done this, I will not stop until I get revenge on you!”
8 E da ilima doagala: le, bagohame medole legei. Amalalu, e da asili, magufu gelabo Ida: me gafulu ganodini galu, amo ganodini esalu.
So he attacked the Philistines furiously, and killed many of them. Then he went [to hide] in a cave in the large rock at a place called Etam.
9 Filisidini dunu da misini, ilia hawa: i fisu Yuda soge ganodini gaguli esalu. Amalalu, ilia da Lihi sogega doagala: i.
The Philistines [did not know where he was, so they] went up to where the descendants of Judah lived, set up their tents near Lehi [town and then raided the town].
10 Yuda dunu da ilima amane adole ba: i, “Dilia da abuliba: le ninima doagala: sala: ?” Ilia da bu adole i, “Ninia da Sa: masane amo afugili lale, ea hou ninima hamoi amo defele, ema agoane hamomusa: misi dagoi.”
The men there asked the Philistines, “Why have you attacked us?” The Philistines replied, “We have come to capture Samson. We have come to get revenge on him for what he did to us.”
11 Amaiba: le, Yuda dunu 3,000 da Ida: me gafulu ganodini magufu gelabo amoga asili, Sa: masane ema amane sia: i, “Filisidini dunu da ninia ouligisu dunu. Amo di da hame dawa: bela: ? Di da abuliba: le amo hou ninima hamobela: ?” Sa: masane da bu adole i, “Na da ilia hamoi amo dabe fawane bu dabe ga: i.”
[Someone there knew where Samson was hiding]. So 3,000 men from Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock where he was hiding. They said to Samson, “Do you not realize that the people of Philistia are ruling over us? Do you not realize what they will do to us?” Samson replied, “The only thing I did was that I got revenge on them for what they did to me.”
12 Ilia da amane sia: i, “Ninia da di afugili la: gili ilima ima: ne misi dagoi.” Sa: masane da ilima amane sia: i, “Dilisu da na hame medole legemu, amo nama dafawane sia: ma.”
But the men from Judah said to him, “We have come to tie you up and put you in the hands of the Philistines.” Samson said, “All right, but promise me that you yourselves will not kill me!”
13 Ilia da bu adole i, “Defea! Ninia da di la: gili ilima imunu amo fawane. Be ninia da di hame medole legemu.” Amaiba: le, ilia da Sa: masane efe gaheabolo aduna amoga la: gili, magufu gelabo fisili, Lihi moilaiga oule asi.
They replied, “We will just tie you up and take you to the Philistines. We will not kill you.” So they tied him with two new ropes, and led him away from the cave.
14 E da Lihi sogega doaga: musa: , logoba: le ahoanu, Filisidini da e gagumusa: bululusa doagala: i. E da hedolowane, Hina Gode Ea gasa bagade lai dagoi. Gasa bagade efe ea lobo la: gisu amo e da dadamunisi. La: gisu da gobia ha: i amo laluga nei dagoi agoane ba: i.
When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came toward him, shouting [triumphantly]. But Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully. He snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they were stalks of burned flax, and the ropes fell off his wrists.
15 Amalalu, e da dougi ayawane bogoi, ea magado gasa ba: i. E da amo gaguia gadole, amoga dunu 1,000 medole legei.
Then he saw a donkey’s jawbone lying on the ground. It was fresh, [so it was hard]. He picked it up and killed about 1,000 Philistine men with it.
16 Amaiba: le, Sa: masane da amane gesami hea: i, “Na da dougi ea magado gasa amoga dunu 1,000 medole legei. Dougi ea magado gasa amoga na da dunu bagohame medole, ili bogoi da: i hodo amoga gagadole bi baheda: i bagohame hamosu.”
Then Samson wrote this poem: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have made them like a heap of [dead] donkeys. With the jawbone of a donkey I killed 1,000 men.”
17 Amalalu, e da dougi magado gasa ha: digi dagoi. Ilia da amo hou doaga: i sogebi amoma Lamade Lihi dio asuli.
When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
18 Amalalu, Sa: masane da hano bagade hanai ba: i. E da Hina Godema amane wele sia: su, “Di da fidibiba: le, na da baligiliwane hasalasi. Be wali na da hano hanaiba: le bogomu galebe, amola hame lalegagui Filisidini dunu ilia da na gagulaligimu amo da defeala: ?”
Then Samson was very thirsty, so he called out to Yahweh, “You have given me strength to win a great victory. So now must I die because of being thirsty, with the result that those heathen Philistines will take away my body [and mutilate it]?”
19 Amalalu, Gode da Lihi sogega hano osobo hagudu dialu amo doasili, hano da heda: lebe ba: i. Sa: masane da amo hano nanu, bu uhibi ba: i. Amaiba: le, ilia da amo hano amoma Hagole (bai da ‘wele sia: su’) dio asuli. Amo hano da wali Lihi sogega diala.
So God caused water to gush out of a depression in the ground at Lehi. Samson drank from it and soon felt strong again. He named that place ‘The spring of the one who called out’. That spring is still there at Lehi.
20 Filisidini dunu da Isala: ili soge ouligisu. Be ode 20 amoga, Isala: ili dunu da Sa: masane ema fa: no bobogei.
Samson was the leader of the Israeli people for 20 years, but during that time the Philistines [were the ones who really ruled over the land].
