Judges 15
1 Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.
Después de algún tiempo, en los días de la siega del trigo, Sansón visitó a su mujer, llevando un cabrito, y dijo: “Me llegaré a mi mujer, en su aposento.” Pero el padre de ella no le dejó entrar.
2 And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.
Pues dijo su padre: “Yo pensaba que tú no le tienes más que odio; por tanto se la di a uno de tus compañeros. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Sea ella tuya, en su lugar.”
3 Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.
Pero Sansón les dijo: “Esta vez no pueden quejarse de mí los filisteos, si les hago mal.”
4 So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;
Fue Sansón y tomó trescientas zorras y teas, y atándoles cola con cola, puso una tea entre cada dos colas.
5 Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.
Luego, encendiendo las teas, las soltó entre las mieses de los filisteos; y así quemó las gavillas y las mieses en pie, y hasta las viñas y los olivares.
6 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his friend. So the Philistines came up and had her and her father's house burned.
Preguntaron los filisteos: “¿Quién ha hecho esto?” Y se les dijo; “Sansón, yerno del Timnateo; por cuanto este ha tomado su mujer y se la ha dado a uno de sus compañeros.” Subieron los filisteos y quemaron tanto a ella como a su padre.
7 And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.
Entonces les dijo Sansón: “Ya que habéis hecho esto, no cesaré hasta que haya tomado venganza de vosotros.”
8 And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.
Les dio rudos golpes sobre muslos y lomos haciendo un destrozo grande; luego bajó y habitó en una caverna del peñón de Etam.
9 Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.
Entonces subieron los filisteos y acamparon en Judá, desplegando sus fuerzas cerca de Lehí.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to take Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
Preguntaron los hombres de Judá: “¿Por qué habéis subido contra nosotros?” A lo que respondieron: “Hemos subido para atar a Sansón, a fin de hacer con él según él ha hecho con nosotros.”
11 Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.
Y bajaron tres mil hombres de Judá a la caverna del peñón de Etam, y dijeron a Sansón: “¿No sabes que los filisteos dominan sobre nosotros? ¿Qué es esto que has hecho?” Él les contestó: “Como ellos hicieron conmigo, así he hecho yo con ellos.”
12 Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.
Y le dijeron: “Hemos bajado para atarte, a fin de entregarte en manos de los filisteos.” Sansón les dijo: “Juradme que no me vais a matar.”
13 And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.
Ellos le respondieron diciendo: “No, solamente te ataremos y te entregaremos en poder de ellos, pero de ninguna manera te mataremos.” Lo ataron con dos sogas nuevas, y le sacaron del peñón.
14 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.
Cuando llegó a Lehí, los filisteos le salieron al encuentro con grande algazara. Mas el Espíritu de Yahvé vino sobre él; las sogas que tenía sobre sus brazos fueron como hilos de lino que se queman por el fuego, y se deshicieron las ligaduras de sobre sus manos.
15 And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.
Y como hallase la quijada de un asno recién muerto, alargó la mano, la agarró y mató con ella a mil hombres.
16 And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.
Dijo entonces Sansón: “Con la quijada de un asno (maté) un montón, dos montones; con la quijada de un asno he matado mil hombres.”
17 And having said these words, he let the mouth-bone go out of his hand; so that place was named Ramath-lehi.
Dicho esto, arrojó la quijada de su mano; y llamó aquel lugar Ramat- Lehí.
18 After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.
Y teniendo grandísima sed, clamó a Yahvé, diciendo: “Tú has obrado esta gran liberación por manos de tu siervo; y ahora me muero de sed y caigo en manos de los incircuncisos.”
19 Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.
Entonces hendió Dios la piedra hueca que hay en Lehí, y salió de allí agua. Cuando hubo bebido, se reanimó y recobró sus fuerzas. Por tanto, fue llamado aquella fuente En Hakoré, que es la que hoy todavía existe en Lehí.
20 And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.
Sansón juzgó a Israel en los días de los filisteos durante veinte años.
