Judges 15
1 Then, after some time, when the days of the wheat harvest were near, Samson arrived, intending to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid from the goats. And when he wanted to enter her bedroom, as usual, her father prohibited him, saying:
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 “I thought that you would hate her, and therefore I gave her to your friend. But she has a sister, who is younger and more beautiful than she is. And she may be a wife for you, instead of her.”
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 And Samson answered him: “From this day, there shall be no guilt for me against the Philistines. For I will do harm to you all.”
Pero Sansón les dijo: “Esta vez no pueden quejarse de mí los filisteos, si les hago mal.”
4 And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails.
Fue Sansón y tomó trescientas zorras y teas, y atándoles cola con cola, puso una tea entre cada dos colas.
5 And setting these on fire, he released them, so that they might rush from place to place. And immediately they went into the grain fields of the Philistines, setting these on fire, both the grain that was already bound for carrying, and what was still standing on the stalk. These were completely burned up, so much so that the flame also consumed even the vineyards and the olive groves.
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 And the Philistines said, “Who has done this thing?” And it was said: “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another. He has done these things.” And the Philistines went up and burned the woman as well as her father.
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, “Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted.”
Entonces les dijo Sansón: “Ya que habéis hecho esto, no cesaré hasta que haya tomado venganza de vosotros.”
8 And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave 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 And so the Philistines, ascending into the land of Judah, made camp at the place which was later called Lehi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army spread out.
Entonces subieron los filisteos y acamparon en Judá, desplegando sus fuerzas cerca de Lehí.
10 And some from the tribe of Judah said to them, “Why have you ascended against us?” And they responded, “We have come to bind Samson, and to repay him for what 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 men of Judah descended to the cave of the rock at Etam. And they said to Samson: “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why would you want to do this?” And he said to them, “As they have done to me, so I have done to them.”
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 And they said to him, “We have come to bind you, and to deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear and promise to me that you will not kill me.”
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 They said: “We will not kill you. But we will deliver you tied.” And they bound him with two new cords. And they took him from the rock at Etam.
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 had arrived at the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines, shouting aloud, had met him, the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. And just as flax is usually consumed by a hint of fire, so were the ties with which he was bound broken and released.
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 finding a jawbone which was laying there, that is, the jawbone of a donkey, snatching it up, 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 he said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, with the jaw of the colt of a donkey, I have destroyed them, and I have struck down 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 when he had completed these words, singing, he threw the jawbone from his hand. And called the name of that place Ramath-Lehi, which is translated as ‘the elevation of the jawbone.’
Dicho esto, arrojó la quijada de su mano; y llamó aquel lugar Ramat- Lehí.
18 And being very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, and he said: “You have given, to the hand of your servant, this very great salvation and victory. But see that I am dying of thirst, and so I will fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.”
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 And so the Lord opened a large tooth in the jawbone of the donkey, and water went out from it. And having drank it, his spirit was revived, and he recovered his strength. For this reason, the name of that place was called ‘the Spring called forth from the jawbone,’ even to the present 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 judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.
Sansón juzgó a Israel en los días de los filisteos durante veinte años.
