< Judges 16 >

1 And Samson went from there to Gaza, and saw a prostitute there, and went in to her.
و شمشون به غزه رفت و در آنجافاحشه‌ای دیده، نزد او داخل شد.۱
2 And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here." They surrounded him, and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and were quiet all night, saying, "Wait until morning light, then we will kill him."
و به اهل غزه گفته شد که شمشون به اینجا آمده است. پس او را احاطه نموده، تمام شب برایش نزددروازه شهر کمین گذاردند، و تمام شب خاموش مانده، گفتند، چون صبح روشن شود او رامی کشیم.۲
3 Now Samson rested until midnight, but got up at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is overlooking Hebron, and set them down there.
و شمشون تا نصف شب خوابید. ونصف شب برخاسته، لنکهای دروازه شهر و دوباهو را گرفته، آنها را با پشت بند کند و بر دوش خود گذاشته، بر قله کوهی که در مقابل حبرون است، برد.۳
4 It came to pass afterward, that he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
و بعد از آن واقع شد که زنی را در وادی سورق که اسمش دلیله بود، دوست می‌داشت.۴
5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."
وسروران فلسطینیان نزد او برآمده، وی را گفتند: «او را فریفته، دریافت کن که قوت عظیمش در چه چیز است، و چگونه بر او غالب آییم تا او را بسته، ذلیل نماییم، و هریکی از ما هزار و صد مثقال نقره به تو خواهیم داد.»۵
6 Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you can be bound and subdued."
پس دلیله به شمشون گفت: «تمنا اینکه به من بگویی که قوت عظیم تو در چه چیز است و چگونه می‌توان تو را بست و ذلیل نمود.»۶
7 Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."
شمشون وی را گفت: «اگر مرا به هفت ریسمان تر و تازه که خشک نباشد ببندند، من ضعیف و مثل سایر مردم خواهم شد.»۷
8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
و سروران فلسطینیان هفت ریسمان تر و تازه که خشک نشده بود، نزد او آوردند و او وی را به آنهابست.۸
9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson." He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
و کسان نزد وی در حجره در کمین می‌بودند و او وی را گفت: «ای شمشون فلسطینیان بر تو آمدند.» آنگاه ریسمانها رابگسیخت چنانکه ریسمان کتان که به آتش برخورد گسیخته شود، لهذا قوتش دریافت نشد.۹
10 Delilah said to Samson, "Look, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound."
و دلیله به شمشون گفت: «اینک استهزاکرده، به من دروغ گفتی، پس الان مرا خبر بده که به چه چیز تو را توان بست.»۱۰
11 He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."
او وی را گفت: «اگر مرا با طنابهای تازه که با آنها هیچ کار کرده نشده است، ببندند، ضعیف و مثل سایر مردان خواهم شد.»۱۱
12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson." The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
و دلیله طنابهای تازه گرفته، او رابا آنها بست و به وی گفت: «ای شمشون فلسطینیان بر تو آمدند.» و کسان در حجره درکمین می‌بودند. آنگاه آنها را از بازوهای خود مثل نخ بگسیخت.۱۲
13 Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven braids on my head with the fabric and fasten them with the pin, then I will be weak as another man."
و دلیله به شمشون گفت: «تابحال مرااستهزا نموده، دروغ گفتی. مرا بگو که به چه چیزبسته می‌شوی.» او وی را گفت: «اگر هفت گیسوی سر مرا با تار ببافی.»۱۳
14 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids on his head, and wove them with the fabric, and she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson." And he awoke from his sleep, and pulled away the pin of the loom and the fabric.
پس آنها را به میخ قایم بست و وی را گفت: «ای شمشون فلسطینیان بر تو آمدند.» آنگاه از خواب بیدار شده، هم میخ نورد نساج و هم تار را برکند.۱۴
15 She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies."
و او وی را گفت: «چگونه می‌گویی که مرادوست می‌داری و حال آنکه دل تو با من نیست. این سه مرتبه مرا استهزا نموده، مرا خبر ندادی که قوت عظیم تو در چه چیز است.»۱۵
16 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.
و چون اووی را هر روز به سخنان خود عاجز می‌ساخت واو را الحاح می‌نمود و جانش تا به موت تنگ می‌شد،۱۶
17 He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."
هر‌چه در دل خود داشت برای او بیان کرده، گفت که «استره بر سر من نیامده است، زیرا که از رحم مادرم برای خداوند نذیره شده‌ام، واگر تراشیده شوم، قوتم از من خواهد رفت وضعیف و مثل سایر مردمان خواهم شد.»۱۷
18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines went up to her, and brought the money in their hands.
پس چون دلیله دید که هرآنچه در دلش بود، برای او بیان کرده است، فرستاد و سروران فلسطینیان را طلبیده، گفت: «این دفعه بیایید زیراهرچه در دل داشت مرا گفته است.» آنگاه سروران فلسطینیان نزد او آمدند و نقد را به‌دست خود آوردند.۱۸
19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and he began to weaken, and his strength went from him.
و او را بر زانوهای خودخوابانیده، کسی را طلبید و هفت گیسوی سرش را تراشید. پس به ذلیل نمودن او شروع کرد وقوتش از او برفت.۱۹
20 She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson." He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had departed from him.
و گفت: «ای شمشون فلسطینیان بر تو آمدند.» آنگاه از خواب بیدارشده، گفت: «مثل پیشتر بیرون رفته، خود رامی افشانم. اما او ندانست که خداوند از او دورشده است.۲۰
21 The Philistines seized him, and gouged out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.
پس فلسطینیان او را گرفته، چشمانش را کندند و او را به غزه آورده، به زنجیرهای برنجین بستند و در زندان دستاس می‌کرد.۲۱
22 However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
و موی سرش بعد از تراشیدن باز به بلند شدن شروع نمود.۲۲
23 The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to celebrate; for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."
و سروران فلسطینیان جمع شدند تا قربانی عظیمی برای خدای خود، داجون بگذرانند، وبزم نمایند زیرا گفتند خدای ما دشمن ما شمشون را به‌دست ما تسلیم نموده است.۲۳
24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand."
و چون خلق او را دیدند خدای خود را تمجید نمودند، زیراگفتند خدای ما دشمن ما را که زمین ما را خراب کرد و بسیاری از ما را کشت، به‌دست ما تسلیم نموده است.۲۴
25 And it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. And they were striking him. And they set him between the pillars;
و چون دل ایشان شاد شد، گفتند: «شمشون را بخوانید تا برای ما بازی کند.» پس شمشون را از زندان آورده، برای ایشان بازی می کرد، و او را در میان ستونها برپا داشتند.۲۵
26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them." And the boy did so.
وشمشون به پسری که دست او را می‌گرفت، گفت: «مرا واگذار تا ستونهایی که خانه بر آنها قایم است، لمس نموده، بر آنها تکیه نمایم.»۲۶
27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there. And there were on the roof about three thousand men and women watching while Samson performed.
و خانه از مردان و زنان پر بود و جمیع سروران فلسطینیان در آن بودند و قریب به سه هزار مرد و زن برپشت بام، بازی شمشون را تماشا می‌کردند.۲۷
28 Samson called to the LORD, and said, "Lord GOD, please remember me, and please strengthen me only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."
و شمشون از خداوند استدعا نموده، گفت: «ای خداوند یهوه مرا بیاد آور و‌ای خدا این مرتبه فقط مرا قوت بده تا یک انتقام برای دو چشم خوداز فلسطینیان بکشم.»۲۸
29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
و شمشون دو ستون میان را که خانه بر آنها قایم بود، یکی را به‌دست راست و دیگری را به‌دست چپ خود گرفته، بر آنها تکیه نمود.۲۹
30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
و شمشون گفت: «همراه فلسطینیان بمیرم و با زور خم شده، خانه بر سروران و برتمامی خلقی که در آن بودند، افتاد. پس مردگانی که در موت خود کشت از مردگانی که درزندگی‌اش کشته بود، زیادتر بودند.۳۰
31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
آنگاه برادرانش و تمامی خاندان پدرش آمده، او رابرداشتند و او را آورده، در قبر پدرش مانوح درمیان صرعه و اشتاول دفن کردند. و او بیست سال بر اسرائیل داوری کرد.۳۱

< Judges 16 >