Judges 15
1 And it came to pass after a time, in the days of the wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber; but her father would not suffer him to go in.
Beberapa waktu kemudian, dalam musim menuai gandum, pergilah Simson mengunjungi isterinya, dengan membawa seekor anak kambing, serta berkata: "Aku mau ke kamar mendapatkan isteriku." Tetapi ayah perempuan itu tidak membiarkan dia masuk.
2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her, I pray thee, be thine instead of her.
Kata ayah perempuan itu: "Aku telah menyangka, bahwa engkau benci sama sekali kepadanya, sebab itu aku memberikannya kepada kawanmu. Bukankah adiknya lebih cantik dari padanya? Baiklah kauambil itu bagimu sebagai gantinya."
3 And Samson said to them, This time I am blameless toward the Philistines, though I do them harm.
Lalu kata Simson kepadanya: "Sekali ini aku tidak bersalah terhadap orang Filistin, apabila aku mendatangkan celaka kepada mereka."
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred jackals, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between the two tails.
Maka pergilah Simson, ditangkapnya tiga ratus anjing hutan, diambilnya obor, diikatnya ekor dengan ekor dan ditaruhnya sebuah obor di antara tiap-tiap dua ekor.
5 And he set the torches on fire, and let [them] run into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, and the olive gardens.
Kemudian dinyalakannyalah obor itu dan dilepaskannya anjing-anjing hutan itu ke gandum yang belum dituai kepunyaan orang Filistin, sehingga terbakarlah tumpukan-tumpukan gandum dan gandum yang belum dituai dan kebun-kebun pohon zaitun.
6 And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
Berkatalah orang Filistin: "Siapakah yang melakukan ini?" Orang menjawab: "Simson, menantu orang Timna itu, sebab orang itu telah mengambil isteri Simson dan memberikannya kepada kawannya." Kemudian pergilah orang Filistin ke sana dan membakar perempuan itu beserta ayahnya.
7 And Samson said to them, If ye act thus, for a certainty I will avenge myself on you, and then I will cease.
Lalu berkatalah Simson kepada mereka: "Jika kamu berbuat demikian, sesungguhnya aku takkan berhenti sebelum aku membalaskannya kepada kamu."
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.
Dan dengan pukulan yang hebat ia meremukkan tulang-tulang mereka. Lalu pergilah ia dan tinggal dalam gua di bukit batu Etam.
9 And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Lalu majulah orang Filistin dan berkemah di daerah Yehuda serta memencar ke Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
Berkatalah orang-orang Yehuda: "Mengapa kamu maju menyerang kami?" Lalu jawab mereka: "Kami maju untuk mengikat Simson dan memperlakukan dia seperti dia memperlakukan kami."
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the cliff Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? And what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
Kemudian turunlah tiga ribu orang dari suku Yehuda ke gua di gunung batu Etam dan berkata kepada Simson: "Tidakkah kauketahui, bahwa orang Filistin berkuasa atas kita? Apakah juga yang telah kauperbuat terhadap kami?" Tetapi jawabnya kepada mereka: "Seperti mereka memperlakukan aku, demikianlah aku memperlakukan mereka."
12 And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may give thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall on me yourselves.
Kata mereka kepadanya: "Kami datang ke sini untuk mengikat dan menyerahkan engkau ke dalam tangan orang Filistin." Tetapi jawab Simson kepada mereka: "Bersumpahlah kepadaku, bahwa kamu sendiri tidak akan menyerang aku."
13 And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but we certainly shall not put thee to death. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the cliff.
Lalu kata mereka kepadanya: "Tidak, kami hanya mau mengikat engkau dan menyerahkan engkau ke dalam tangan mereka, tetapi membunuh engkau kami tidak mau." Maka mereka mengikat dia dengan dua tali baru dan membawa dia dari bukit batu itu.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and the cords that were on his arms became as threads of flax that are burned with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
Setelah ia sampai ke Lehi dan orang-orang Filistin mendatangi dia dengan bersorak-sorak, maka berkuasalah Roh TUHAN atas dia dan tali-tali pada tangannya menjadi seperti batang rami yang telah habis dimakan api dan segala pengikatnya hancur tanggal dari tangannya.
15 And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew with it a thousand men.
Kemudian ia menemui sebuah tulang rahang keledai yang masih baru, diulurkannya tangannya, dipungutnya dan dipukulnya mati seribu orang dengan tulang itu.
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, a heap, two heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Berkatalah Simson: "Dengan rahang keledai bangsa keledai itu kuhajar, dengan rahang keledai seribu orang kupukul."
17 And it came to pass when he had ended speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.
Setelah berkata demikian, dilemparnya tulang rahang itu dari tangannya. Kemudian dinamailah tempat itu Ramat Lehi.
18 And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given by the hand of thy servant this great deliverance, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Ketika ia sangat haus, berserulah ia kepada TUHAN: "Oleh tangan hamba-Mu ini telah Kauberikan kemenangan yang besar itu, masakan sekarang aku akan mati kehausan dan jatuh ke dalam tangan orang-orang yang tidak bersunat itu!"
19 And God clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
Kemudian Allah membelah liang batu yang di Lehi itu, dan keluarlah air dari situ. Ia minum, lalu menjadi kuat dan segar kembali. Sebab itu dinamailah mata air itu Mata Air Penyeru, yang sampai sekarang masih ada di Lehi.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Ia memerintah sebagai hakim atas orang Israel dalam zaman orang Filistin, dua puluh tahun lamanya.
