Suci 15
1 Poslije nekog vremena, o žetvi pšenice, Samson dođe da pohodi svoju ženu, donijevši joj kozle i reče: “Želim ući k svojoj ženi u ložnicu.” Ali mu tast ne dopusti.
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 “Mislio sam,” reče mu on, “da si je zamrzio, pa sam je dao tvome drugu. Ali zar njezina mlađa sestra nije ljepša od nje? Uzmi je namjesto one!”
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 Samson mu odgovori: “Ovaj put neću biti krivac Filistejcima kad im učinim zlo.”
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
4 I ode Samson, ulovi tri stotine lisica, uze luči i, okrenuvši rep prema repu, stavi jednu luč među dva repa.
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 Tad zapali luči, pusti lisice u filistejska polja i popali im snopove, i nepokošeno žito, i vinograde, i maslinike.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
6 Filistejci zapitaše: “Tko je to učinio?” Odgovoriše im: “Samson, Timnjaninov zet, zato što mu tast oduze ženu i dade je njegovu drugu.” Tad Filistejci odoše i spališe onu ženu i njenu obitelj.
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 burnt her and her father with fire.
7 “Kad ste to učinili”, reče im Samson, “neću mirovati dok vam se ne osvetim.”
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
8 I sve ih izudara uzduž i poprijeko i žestoko ih porazi. Poslije toga ode u spilju Etamske stijene i ondje se nastani.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
9 Tad Filistejci krenuše, utaboriše se u Judi i raširiše do Lehija.
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 “Zašto ste pošli na nas?” - upitaše ih Judejci. A oni im odgovoriše: “Pošli smo da svežemo Samsona i da mu učinimo kako je on učinio nama.”
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 Tri tisuće Judejaca odoše tada k spilji Etamske stijene i rekoše Samsonu: “Zar ne znaš da Filistejci nama gospodare? Zašto si nam onda to učinio?” On im odgovori: “Kako oni meni, tako ja njima!” A oni mu rekoše:
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 “Dođosmo da te svežemo i predamo u ruke Filistejaca.” “Zakunite mi se”, reče im, “da me nećete ubiti.”
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 “Ne”, odgovoriše mu, “mi ćemo te samo svezati i predati u njihove ruke, ali te zacijelo ne želimo pogubiti.” Onda ga svezaše sa dva nova užeta i odvedoše iz spilje.
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 Kad ga dovedoše u Lehi i kad Filistejci, vičući od radosti, pojuriše na nj, duh Jahvin zahvati ga i užeta na njegovim rukama postadoše kao laneni konci, spaljeni ognjem, i spadoše mu s ruku.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Spazivši još sirovu magareću čeljust, pruži on ruku, uze onu čeljust i pobi njome tisuću ljudi.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Tad reče Samson: “Magarećom čeljusti gomile prebih, Magarećom čeljusti tisuću pobih.”
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
17 Rekavši to, baci čeljust iz ruke. Zato odonda ono mjesto zovu Ramat Lehi.
When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Kako bijaše jako ožednio, zavapi Jahvi govoreći: “Ti si izvojštio ovu veliku pobjedu rukama svoga sluge, a zar sada moram umrijeti od žeđi i pasti u ruke neobrezanima?”
He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD 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 Tad Jahve rasiječe udubinu što je kod Lehija i voda poteče iz nje. Samson se napi i vrati mu se snaga, oživje mu duh. Zato su onom izvoru dali ime En Hakore, a postoji još i danas u Lehiju.
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 Samson bijaše sudac u Izraelu za vrijeme filistejske vladavine dvadeset godina.
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
