士師記 15
1 過了一些日子，正是收割麥子的時期，三松帶了一隻小山羊去看他的妻子；他說：「我要到內室去親近我的妻子。」但是妻子的父親不讓他進去，
But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said: 'I will go in to my wife into the chamber.' But her father would not suffer him to go in.
2 且說：「我以為你一定厭惡了她，所以我將她嫁給你的一個同伴；她的妹妹不是比她更美麗嗎﹖你可娶而代之。」
And her father said: 'I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.'
3 三松對他們說：「我若加害培肋舍特人，這一次我可不負責任。」
And Samson said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.'
4 於是三松去捉了三百隻狐狸，又拿火把來，把狐狸的尾和尾結在一起，將火把插在兩尾中間，
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.
5 點著火把，將狐狸放入培肋舍特人的莊田內，把堆集的麥捆，立著的莊稼，葡萄園和橄欖園都燒了。
And when he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing corn, and also the oliveyards.
6 培肋舍特人問說：「是誰作了這事﹖」有人說：「是提默納人的女婿三松，因為他的岳父把他的妻子嫁給了他的一個同伴。」培肋舍特人就上去，放火燒了那女子和她的父家。
Then the Philistines said: 'Who hath done this?' And they said: 'Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion.' And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 三松向他們說：「你們既然這樣作，我必向你們報復，然後纔罷休。」
And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'
8 三松遂打擊他們，腿腰亂砍，大殺一陣；然後下去住在厄坦的一個石穴內。以驢骨擊殺千人
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 培肋舍特人上去，在猶大紮營，進襲肋希。
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi.
10 猶大問說：「你們為什麼上來攻打我們﹖」他們答說：「我們上來是為拘捕三松，要報復他對我們所行的。」
And the men of Judah said: 'Why are ye come up against us?' And they said: 'To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.'
11 於是有三千猶大人到厄坦石穴那裏，對三松說：「難道你不知道培肋舍特人統治我們嗎﹖你為什麼作連累我們的事﹖」他回答說：「他們怎樣待我，我也怎樣待他們。」
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson: 'Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us?' And he said unto them: 'As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.'
12 他們就向他說：「我們下來是為拘捕你，把你交在培肋舍特人手中。」三松向他們說：「你們要對我發誓，不殺害我! 」
And they said unto him: 'We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson said unto them: 'Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.'
13 他們回答說：「一定不；我們只把你綁好，交在他們手中，決不殺你。」他們於是兩條新繩把他捆起，從石穴裏把他拉上來。
And they spoke unto him, saying: 'No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but surely we will not kill thee.' And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 他來到肋希，培肋舍特人吶喊著出來迎他；那時上主的神突然降在他身上，他手臂上的繩索，好像著火的細麻一樣，綁他的繩子從他的手上落下。
When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 他找到一塊鮮驢腮骨，伸手拿起來，擊殺了一千人。
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
16 然後三松喊說：「用驢腮骨殺的一堆一堆，用驢腮骨殺了一千。」
And Samson said: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
17 當他說完這話，就順手把腮骨拋棄了；因此那地名叫辣瑪肋希。
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.
18 此後，他非常口渴，呼籲上主說：「你藉你僕人的手得了這次大勝利；如今我卻要渴死，陷於這些沒有割損的人手中。」
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said: 'Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of Thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?'
19 上主遂在肋希使一窪地裂開，湧出水來；他喝了水，精神恢復，無異再生；因此那泉稱作「呼籲泉，」至今還在肋希。
But God cleaved the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came back, and he revived; wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
20 他在培肋舍特人統治以色列的時日內，作以色列民長二十年。
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
