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 after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow 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。」
Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
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。」
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
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，
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle 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。
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
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 has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned 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。」
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on 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
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
9 培肋舍特人上去，在猶大紮營，進襲肋希。
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in 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。」
The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has 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 cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to 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! 」
They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack 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。
They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” 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 to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned 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。
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
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。」
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck 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。
When he had finished speaking, he threw 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。」
He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands 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 split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to 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。
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
