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:
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 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.
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 I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
Pero Sansón les dijo: “Esta vez no pueden quejarse de mí los filisteos, si les hago mal.”
4 And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened 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 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.
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 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.
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 But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
Entonces les dijo Sansón: “Ya que habéis hecho esto, no cesaré hasta que haya tomado venganza de vosotros.”
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.
Les dio rudos golpes sobre muslos y lomos haciendo un destrozo grande; luego bajó y habitó en una caverna del peñón de Etam.
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.
Entonces subieron los filisteos y acamparon en Judá, desplegando sus fuerzas cerca de Lehí.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock 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 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.
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, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
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 an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain 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 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.
Dicho esto, arrojó la quijada de su mano; y llamó aquel lugar Ramat- Lehí.
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.
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 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.
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 twenty years.
Sansón juzgó a Israel en los días de los filisteos durante veinte años.
