< Judges 16 >
1 And Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
三松往迦薩去,在那裏看見一個妓女,便去走近了她。
2 And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Sampson is come here: and they compassed him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and they were quiet all the night, saying, Let us wait till the dawn appear, and we will kill him.
有人告訴迦薩人說:「三松到這裏來了。」他們就把他圍住,終夜派人埋伏在城門口,整夜靜悄悄地等待他,說:「等到早晨天亮,我們纔殺他。」
3 And Sampson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Chebron, and laid them there.
三松睡到半夜,半夜醒來,抓緊城門,連兩個門框帶門閂,一起拔起,放在肩上,背到赫特龍對面的山頂上。三松與德里拉
4 And it came to pass after this that he loved a woman in Alsorech, and her name [was] Dalida.
此後,他在芍勒克平原又愛上一個女人,名叫德里拉。
5 And the princess of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see wherein his great strength [is], and wherewith we shall prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give you each eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
培肋舍特的酋長上到她那裏,對她說:「請你引誘他,看看他這樣大的力量是從那裏來的,我們怎樣能制勝他,將他捆起,而制伏他;我們每人給你一千一百銀子。」
6 And Dalida said to Sampson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein [is] your great strength, and wherewith you shall be bound that you may be humbled.
德里拉問三松說:「請你告訴我,你這樣大的力量是從那裏來的﹖人怎樣纔能將你捆起,而制伏你﹖」
7 And Sampson said to her, If they bind me with seven moist cords that have not been spoiled, then shall I be weak and be as one of ordinary men.
三松回答說:「人若用七根未乾的新牛筋繩將我捆起,我就像別人一樣軟弱。」
8 And the princess of the Philistines brought to her seven moist cords that had not been spoiled, and she bound him with them.
培肋舍特人的酋長就給她送來七根未乾的新牛筋繩,她便用這些繩子將他捆起。
9 And the liers in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, the Philistines [are] upon you, Sampson: and he broke the cords as if any one should break a thread of tow when it has touched the fire, and his strength was not known.
當時有埋伏的人暗藏在她的內室裏;德里拉向他喊說:「三松,培肋舍特人來捉你哩! 」他就掙斷牛筋繩,如同麻線被火燒斷一樣;於是人們仍不知他力量的所在。
10 And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, you have cheated me, and told me lies; now then tell me wherewith you shall be bound.
德里拉遂對三松說:「看,你戲弄我,對我說謊。如今請你告訴我,怎樣纔能捆綁你﹖」
11 And he said to her, If they should bind me fast with new ropes with which work has not been done, then shall I be weak, and shall be as another man.
他回答她說:「人若用從未用過的新繩將我捆起,我就像別人一樣軟弱。」
12 And Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the liers in wait came out of the chamber, and she said, The Philistines [are] upon you, Sampson: and he broke them off his arms like a thread.
德里拉就拿新繩將他捆起,對他喊說:「三松,培肋舍特人來捉你哩! 」當時仍有埋伏的人暗藏在內室裏;但他掙斷手臂上的繩子,好像一根絲線一樣。
13 And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, you have deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I entreat you, wherewith you may be bound: and he said to her, If you should weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and should fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.
德里拉對三松說:「到現在你仍戲弄我,對我說謊;你告訴我,人怎樣纔能捆綁你﹖」他回答她說:「你若把我頭上的七條髮辮與織布的經線編在一起,然後用木橛釘住,我就像別人一樣軟弱。」
14 And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines [are] upon you, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
德里拉使他睡了,然後把他頭上的七條髮辮與織布的經線編在一起,再用木橛釘住,向他喊說:「三松,培肋舍特人來捉你哩! 」他從夢中醒來,把織布機的木橛連織布的經線都拔了出來。
15 And Dalida said to Sampson, How say you, I love you, when your heart is not with me? this third time you have deceived me, and have not told me wherein [is] your great strength.
德里拉就對他說:「你心裏既沒有我,你怎能說:我愛你呢﹖你已三次戲弄我,還沒有告訴我你這樣大的力量是從那裏來的! 」
16 And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.
因為她天天用話來逼他,催他,致使他的精神苦惱的要死。
17 Then he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, because I have been a holy [one] of God from my mother's womb; if then I should be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I shall be weak, and I shall be as all [other] men.
三松遂把心中的一切全透露給她,對她說:「剃刀從未接觸過我的頭,因為我在母胎時就是獻於天主的;人若剃去我的頭髮,我的力量就離開了我,我就像眾人一樣軟弱。」
18 And Dalida saw that he told her all his heart, and she sent and called the princess of the Philistines, saying, Come up yet this once; for he has told me all his heart. And the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and brought the money in their hands.
德里拉一見他把心中的一切全給她透露了,便打發人召培肋舍特的酋長來說:「這一次你們上來罷! 因為他把心中的一切全透露給我。」於是培肋舍特人的酋長手中帶著銀子,來到德里拉那裏。
19 And Dalida made Sampson sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and she began to humble him, and his strength departed from him.
德里拉使三松睡在自己的膝上,又叫來一個人,剃去他頭上的七條髮辮,他就開始軟弱無力,他的力量全離開了他。
20 And Dalida said, The Philistines [are] upon you, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.
她於是喊說:「三松,培肋舍特人來捉你哩! 」他由夢中醒來,心想:「這一次和前幾次一樣,我一掙扎,必能脫身。」他卻不知道上主已離棄了他。
21 And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house.
培肋舍特人便把他捉住,剜去他的眼睛,帶他下到迦薩,用銅鍊鎖了他,叫他在監獄裏推磨。
22 And the hair of his head began to grow as before it was shaven.
但是他的頭髮在剃了以後,又漸漸長起來。三松殉身復仇
23 And the chiefs of the Philistines met to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to make merry; and they said, God has given into our hand our enemy Sampson.
培肋舍特人的酋長聚集起來,為給他們的神達貢舉行祭獻大典,表示慶祝;他們說:「我們的神把我們的仇人三松交在我們手中。」
24 And the people saw him, and sang praises to their god; for our god, [said they], has delivered into our hand our enemy, who wasted our land, and who multiplied our slain.
民眾一見三松,就讚頌他們的神說:「我們的神把破壞過我們的田地,殺害過我們多人的仇人,交在我們的手中了。」
25 And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Sampson out of the prison-house, and let him play before us: and they called Sampson out of the prison-house, and he played before them; and they struck him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars.
當他們興高采烈的時候,就喊說:「讓三松給我們表演把戲。」他們就從監獄裏叫出三松來,在他們面前耍把戲;以後把他放在兩根柱子中間。
26 And Sampson said to the young man that held his hand, Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house [rests], and I will stay myself upon them.
三松對牽他手的僮僕說:「讓我摸摸支殿的柱子,好能靠一靠。」
27 And the house [was] full of men and woman, and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof [were] about three thousand men and woman looking at the sports of Sampson.
那時殿內滿了男女,培肋舍特人的酋長也在裏面,在天台上約有三千男女,都在看三松表演把戲。
28 And Sampson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my lord, remember me, I pray you, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes.
三松呼求上主說:「吾主上主,求你眷念我! 天主,求你再賜我力量,只要這一次! 以報培肋舍特人剜我雙眼的仇。」
29 And Sampson took hold of the two pillars of the house on which the house stood, and leaned on them, and laid hold of one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
三松就抱住正中支殿的兩根柱子,右手抱一根,左手抱一根;
30 And Sampson said, Let my wife perish with the Philistines: and he bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it: and the dead whom Sampson killed in his death were more than those whom he killed in his life.
然後三松說:「讓我的性命和培肋舍特人同歸於盡! 」於是他奮力屈身,大殿隨之倒塌,壓在酋長和裏面所有的民眾身上;這樣他在臨死時所殺死的人,比一生所殺死的人還多。
31 And his brethren and his father's house went down, and they took him; and they went up and buried him between Saraa and Esthaol in the sepulchre of his father Manoe; and he judged Israel twenty years.
此後,他的兄弟和父親的全家下來,把他抬上去,葬在祚辣和厄市陶耳之間,他父親瑪諾亞的墳墓裏。他作以色列民長二十年。