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, sucedió que en la época de la cosecha del trigo, Sansón fue a visitar a su esposa con un cabrito y se decía: Me uniré a mi esposa en el aposento de dormir. Pero el padre de ella no lo 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.
Y dijo su padre: Realmente pensé que la aborrecías intensamente, así que yo la di a tu compañero. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Te ruego que ésta sea tuya en vez de ella.
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.
Entonces Sansón le respondió: ¡Esta vez no tendré culpa ante los filisteos si les haga daño!
4 And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
Sansón fue y capturó 300 zorras. Tomó astillas de madera impregnadas de resina, las ató cola con cola y puso una astilla entre cola y cola.
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.
Después prendió fuego a las astillas y soltó las zorras entre los sembrados de los filisteos. Quemó los manojos, la cosecha que estaba en pie e incluso 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.
Y los filisteos preguntaron: ¿Quién hizo esto? Y les dijeron: Sansón, yerno del timnateo, porque éste tomó a su esposa y la dio a su compañero. Entonces los filisteos fueron y la quemaron a ella y 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.
Sansón les dijo: Por hacer esto, juro que no descansaré hasta que me vengue de ustedes.
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 hirió cadera y muslo con gran mortandad. Luego bajó y vivió en la hendidura de la peña 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.
Pero los filisteos subieron y acamparon en Judá, y se desplegaron por Lehi.
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.
Los varones de Judá les dijeron: ¿Por qué subieron contra nosotros? Y respondieron: Subimos para atrapar a Sansón a fin de hacerle lo mismo que nos hizo.
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.
Entonces 3.000 hombres de Judá bajaron a la hendidura de la peña de Etam y dijeron a Sansón: ¿No sabes que los filisteos nos dominan? ¿Qué es esto que nos hiciste? Y él les contestó: Les hice como ellos me hicieron.
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.
Ellos le dijeron: Vinimos para atarte y entregarte en las manos de los filisteos. Sansón les dijo: ¡Júrenme que no me matarán ustedes mismos!
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: No, solo te ataremos y te entregaremos en las manos de ellos, pero de seguro no te mataremos. Entonces lo ataron con dos cuerdas nuevas y le ordenaron salir de la peña.
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 Lehi, al verlo los filisteos gritaron. Entonces el Espíritu de Yavé vino poderosamente sobre él, de tal modo que las cuerdas que estaban en sus brazos fueron como lino quemado al fuego, y sus ataduras cayeron de 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.
Al hallar una quijada de asno aún fresca, extendió su mano, la tomó, y con ella mató a 1.000 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.
Entonces cantó Sansón: Con la quijada de un asno, Montones sobre montones; Con la quijada del asno, Maté a 1.000 varones.
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.
Aconteció que cuando acabó de hablar, lanzó con su mano la quijada, y llamó a aquel lugar Ramat-lehi.
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.
Entonces tuvo mucha sed, y clamó a Yavé y dijo: Tú diste esta gran salvación por medio de tu esclavo, ¿y ahora moriré de sed y caeré en las 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 ʼElohim abrió la hendidura que está en Lehi, y de allí salió agua. Y cuando bebió, recobró su fuerza y revivió, por lo cual la llamó En-hacoré, la cual está en Lehi hasta hoy.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
En los días de los filisteos juzgó a Israel 20 años.
