< Judges 15 >
1 But within a while after, in the time of wheate haruest, Samson visited his wife with a kid, saying, I wil go in to my wife into the chamber: but her father would not suffer him to goe in.
過了一些日子,正是收割麥子的時期,三松帶了一隻小山羊去看他的妻子;他說:「我要到內室去親近我的妻子。」但是妻子的父親不讓他進去,
2 And her father sayde, I thought that thou hadst hated her: therefore gaue I her to thy companion. Is not her yonger sister fayrer then shee? take her, I pray thee, in stead of the other.
且說:「我以為你一定厭惡了她,所以我將她嫁給你的一個同伴;她的妹妹不是比她更美麗嗎﹖你可娶而代之。」
3 Then Samson saide vnto them, Nowe am I more blamelesse then the Philistims: therefore will I doe them displeasure.
三松對他們說:「我若加害培肋舍特人,這一次我可不負責任。」
4 And Samson went out, and tooke three hundreth foxes, and tooke firebrands, and turned them taile to taile, and put a firebrand in ye middes betweene two tailes.
於是三松去捉了三百隻狐狸,又拿火把來,把狐狸的尾和尾結在一起,將火把插在兩尾中間,
5 And when he had set the brandes on fire, he sent them out into the standing corne of the Philistims, and burnt vp both the rickes and the standing corne with the vineyardes and oliues.
點著火把,將狐狸放入培肋舍特人的莊田內,把堆集的麥捆,立著的莊稼,葡萄園和橄欖園都燒了。
6 Then the Philistims sayde, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson the sonne in law of the Timnite, because hee had taken his wife, and giuen her to his companion. Then the Philistims came vp and burnt her and her father with fire.
培肋舍特人問說:「是誰作了這事﹖」有人說:「是提默納人的女婿三松,因為他的岳父把他的妻子嫁給了他的一個同伴。」培肋舍特人就上去,放火燒了那女子和她的父家。
7 And Samson saide vnto them, Though yee haue done this, yet wil I be auenged of you, and then I wil cease.
三松向他們說:「你們既然這樣作,我必向你們報復,然後纔罷休。」
8 So hee smote them hippe and thigh with a mightie plague: then hee went and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.
三松遂打擊他們,腿腰亂砍,大殺一陣;然後下去住在厄坦的一個石穴內。以驢骨擊殺千人
9 Then the Philistims came vp, and pitched in Iudah, and were spred abroad in Lehi.
培肋舍特人上去,在猶大紮營,進襲肋希。
10 And the men of Iudah sayde, Why are yee come vp vnto vs? And they answered, To binde Samson are we come vp, and to do to him as hee hath done to vs.
猶大問說:「你們為什麼上來攻打我們﹖」他們答說:「我們上來是為拘捕三松,要報復他對我們所行的。」
11 Then three thousande men of Iudah went to the top of the rocke Etam, and sayde to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistims are rulers ouer vs? Wherefore then hast thou done thus vnto vs? And he answered them, As they did vnto me, so haue I done vnto them.
於是有三千猶大人到厄坦石穴那裏,對三松說:「難道你不知道培肋舍特人統治我們嗎﹖你為什麼作連累我們的事﹖」他回答說:「他們怎樣待我,我也怎樣待他們。」
12 Againe they sayd vnto him, Wee are come to binde thee, and to deliuer thee into the hande of the Philistims. And Samson sayde vnto them, Sweare vnto me, that yee will not fall vpon me your selues.
他們就向他說:「我們下來是為拘捕你,把你交在培肋舍特人手中。」三松向他們說:「你們要對我發誓,不殺害我! 」
13 And they answered him, saying, No, but we will bynde thee and deliuer thee vnto their hande, but we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two newe cordes, and brought him from the rocke.
他們回答說:「一定不;我們只把你綁好,交在他們手中,決不殺你。」他們於是兩條新繩把他捆起,從石穴裏把他拉上來。
14 When hee came to Lehi, the Philistims shouted against him, and the Spirite of the Lord came vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes, became as flaxe that was burnt with fire: for the bandes loosed from his handes.
他來到肋希,培肋舍特人吶喊著出來迎他;那時上主的神突然降在他身上,他手臂上的繩索,好像著火的細麻一樣,綁他的繩子從他的手上落下。
15 And he found a new iawebone of an asse, and put forth his hand, and caught it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
他找到一塊鮮驢腮骨,伸手拿起來,擊殺了一千人。
16 Then Samson sayd, With the iaw of an asse are heapes vpon heapes: with the iawe of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.
然後三松喊說:「用驢腮骨殺的一堆一堆,用驢腮骨殺了一千。」
17 And when he had left speaking, hee cast away the iawebone out of his hande, and called that place, Ramath-Lehi.
當他說完這話,就順手把腮骨拋棄了;因此那地名叫辣瑪肋希。
18 And he was sore a thirst, and called on the Lord, and sayde, Thou hast giuen this great deliuerance into the hand of thy seruaunt: and nowe shall I dye for thirst, and fall into the handes of the vncircumcised?
此後,他非常口渴,呼籲上主說:「你藉你僕人的手得了這次大勝利;如今我卻要渴死,陷於這些沒有割損的人手中。」
19 Then God brake the cheeke tooth, that was in the iawe, and water came thereout: and when he had drunke, his Spirit came againe, and he was reuiued: wherefore the name therof is called, Enhakkore, which is in Lehi vnto this day.
上主遂在肋希使一窪地裂開,湧出水來;他喝了水,精神恢復,無異再生;因此那泉稱作「呼籲泉,」至今還在肋希。
20 And hee iudged Israel in the dayes of the Philistims twentie yeeres.
他在培肋舍特人統治以色列的時日內,作以色列民長二十年。