< Judges 15 >
1 And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not suffer him to go in.
过了些日子,到割麦子的时候,参孙带着一只山羊羔去看他的妻,说:“我要进内室见我的妻。”他岳父不容他进去,
2 And her father spoke, saying, I said that you did surely hate her, and I gave her to one of your friends: [is] not her younger sister better than she? let her be to you instead of her.
说:“我估定你是极其恨她,因此我将她给了你的陪伴。她的妹子不是比她还美丽吗?你可以娶来代替她吧!”
3 And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief amongst them.
参孙说:“这回我加害于非利士人不算有罪。”
4 And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.
于是参孙去捉了三百只狐狸,将狐狸尾巴一对一对地捆上,将火把捆在两条尾巴中间,
5 And he set fire to the torches, and sent [the foxes] into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
点着火把,就放狐狸进入非利士人站着的禾稼,将堆集的禾捆和未割的禾稼,并橄榄园尽都烧了。
6 And the Philistines said, Who [has done] these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.
非利士人说:“这事是谁做的呢?”有人说:“是亭拿人的女婿参孙,因为他岳父将他的妻给了他的陪伴。”于是非利士人上去,用火烧了妇人和她的父亲。
7 And Sampson said to them, Though you may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.
参孙对非利士人说:“你们既然这样行,我必向你们报仇才肯罢休。”
8 And he struck them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down and lived in a cave of the rock Etam.
参孙就大大击杀他们,连腿带腰都砍断了。他便下去,住在以坦磐的穴内。
9 And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.
非利士人上去安营在犹大,布散在利希。
10 And the men of Juda said, Why are you come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
犹大人说:“你们为何上来攻击我们呢?”他们说:“我们上来是要捆绑参孙;他向我们怎样行,我们也要向他怎样行。”
11 And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Know you not that the Philistines rule over us? and what [is] this [that] you have done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
于是有三千犹大人下到以坦磐的穴内,对参孙说:“非利士人辖制我们,你不知道吗?你向我们行的是什么事呢?”他回答说:“他们向我怎样行,我也要向他们怎样行。”
12 And they said to him, We are come down to bind you to deliver you into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.
犹大人对他说:“我们下来是要捆绑你,将你交在非利士人手中。”参孙说:“你们要向我起誓,应承你们自己不害死我。”
13 And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand, and will by no means kill you: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
他们说:“我们断不杀你,只要将你捆绑交在非利士人手中。”于是用两条新绳捆绑参孙,将他从以坦磐带上去。
14 And they came to Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
参孙到了利希,非利士人都迎着喧嚷。耶和华的灵大大感动参孙,他臂上的绳就像火烧的麻一样,他的绑绳都从他手上脱落下来。
15 And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and struck with it a thousand men.
他见一块未干的驴腮骨,就伸手拾起来,用以击杀一千人。
16 And Sampson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass I have utterly destroyed them, for with the jaw-bone of an ass I have struck a thousand men.
参孙说: 我用驴腮骨杀人成堆, 用驴腮骨杀了一千人。
17 And it came to pass when he ceased speaking, that he cast the jaw-bone out of his hand; and he called that place the Lifting of the jaw-bone.
说完这话,就把那腮骨从手里抛出去了。那地便叫拉末·利希。
18 And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, You have been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of your servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
参孙甚觉口渴,就求告耶和华说:“你既借仆人的手施行这么大的拯救,岂可任我渴死、落在未受割礼的人手中呢?”
19 And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called 'The well of the invoker,' which is in Lechi, until this day.
神就使利希的洼处裂开,有水从其中涌出来。参孙喝了,精神复原;因此那泉名叫隐·哈歌利,那泉直到今日还在利希。
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
当非利士人辖制以色列人的时候,参孙作以色列的士师二十年。