Judges 15
1 And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying:
E aconteceu depois de dias, que no tempo da colheita do trigo, Sansão visitou à sua mulher com um cabrito, dizendo: Entrarei à minha mulher à câmara. Mas o pai dela não o deixou entrar.
2 I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.
E disse o pai dela: Persuadi-me que a aborrecias, e dei-a a teu companheiro. Mas sua irmã menor, não é mais bela que ela? Toma-a, pois, em seu lugar.
3 And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
E Sansão lhes respondeu: Eu serei sem culpa esta vez para com os filisteus, se mal lhes fizer.
4 And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
E foi Sansão e agarrou trezentas raposas, e tomando tochas, e segurando aquelas pelas caudas, pôs entre cada duas caudas uma tocha.
5 And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch, that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.
Depois, acendendo as tochas, lançou as raposas nas plantações dos filisteus, e queimou pilhas de cereais e cereais nos pés, e vinhas e olivais.
6 Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.
E disseram os filisteus: Quem fez isto? E foi-lhes dito: Sansão, o genro do timnateu, porque lhe tirou sua mulher e a deu a seu companheiro. E vieram os filisteus, e queimaram a fogo a ela e a seu pai.
7 But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
Então Sansão lhes disse: Assim o havíeis de fazer? Mas eu me vingarei de vós, e depois cessarei.
8 And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.
E feriu-os perna e coxa com grande mortandade; e desceu, e ficou na caverna da penha de Etã.
9 Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread.
E os filisteus subiram e puseram acampamento em Judá, e estenderam-se por Leí.
10 And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay him for what he hath done against us.
E os homens de Judá lhes disseram: Por que subistes contra nós? E eles responderam: A prender a Sansão subimos, para fazer-lhe como ele nos fez.
11 Wherefore three thousand men of Juda, went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.
E vieram três mil homens de Judá à caverna da penha de Etã, e disseram a Sansão: Não sabes tu que os filisteus dominam sobre nós? Por que nos fizeste isto? E ele lhes respondeu: Eu lhes fiz como eles me fizeram.
12 And they said to him, We are come to bind thee and to deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear to me, and promise me, that you will not kill me.
Eles então lhe disseram: Nós viemos para prender-te, e entregar-te em mão dos filisteus. E Sansão lhes respondeu: Jurai-me que vós não me matareis.
13 They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.
E eles lhe responderam, dizendo: Não, somente te prenderemos, e te entregaremos em suas mãos; mas não te mataremos. Então lhe ataram com duas cordas novas, e fizeram-lhe vir da penha.
14 Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as the flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.
E assim que veio até Leí, os filisteus lhe saíram a receber com gritos de vitória: e o espírito do SENHOR caiu sobre ele, e as cordas que estavam em seus braços se tornaram como linho queimado com fogo, e as amarras se caíram de suas mãos.
15 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
E achando uma queixada de asno fresca, estendeu a mão e tomou-a, e feriu com ela a mil homens.
16 And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.
Então Sansão disse: Com a queixada de um asno, um amontoado, dois amontoados; Com a queixada de um asno feri mil homens.
17 And when he had ended these words singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.
E acabando de falar, lançou de sua mão a queixada, e chamou a aquele lugar Ramate-Leí.
18 Arid being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.
E tendo grande sede, clamou logo ao SENHOR, e disse: Tu deste esta grande salvação por meio de teu servo: e morrerei eu agora de sede, e cairei em mão dos incircuncisos?
19 Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass, and waters issued out of it. And when he had drank them he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.
Então quebrou Deus uma cavidade em Leí, e saíram dali águas, e bebeu, e recuperou seu espírito, e reanimou-se. Portanto chamou seu nome daquele lugar, En-Hacoré, o qual é em Leí, até hoje.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
E julgou a Israel nos dias dos filisteus vinte anos.
