< Judges 15 >

1 And it came to pass, after a time, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson went to visit his wife, with a kid, and he said—I will go in unto my wife, in the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
E aconteceu, depois d'alguns dias, que na sega do trigo Sansão visitou a sua mulher com um cabrito, e disse: Entrarei na camara a minha mulher. Porém o pae d'ella não o deixou entrar.
2 And her father said—I, thought, that thou didst, hate, her, so I gave her to thy companion, —Is not, her younger sister, fairer than she? Pray let her be thine, in her stead.
Porque disse seu pae: Por certo dizia eu que de todo a aborrecias: de sorte que a dei ao teu companheiro: porém não é sua irmã mais nova, mais formosa do que ella? toma-a pois em seu logar.
3 And Samson said of them, I shall be more blameless, this time, than the Philistines, —though I should do them a mischief.
Então Sansão disse ácerca d'elles: Innocente sou esta vez para com os philisteos, quando lhes fizer algum mal.
4 So Samson went, and caught three hundred jackals, —and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put one torch between the two tails, in the midst.
E foi Sansão, e tomou trezentas raposas: e, tomando tições, as virou cauda a cauda, e lhes poz um tição no meio de cada duas caudas.
5 And, when he had set fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, —and set fire, both to the stack of sheaves and to the standing corn, and besides to the olive plantation.
E chegou fogo aos tições, e largou-as na seara dos philisteos: e assim abrazou os molhos com a sega do trigo, e as vinhas com os olivaes.
6 Then said the Philistines—Who hath done this? And they said—Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father, with fire.
Então disseram os philisteos: Quem fez isto? E disseram: Sansão, o genro do Timnatha, porque lhe tomou a sua mulher, e a deu a seu companheiro. Então subiram os philisteos, e queimaram a fogo a ella e a seu pae.
7 And Samson said to them, Though ye do the like of this, yet will I be avenged upon you, and, afterwards, will I cease.
Então lhes disse Sansão: Assim o haveis de fazer? pois havendo-me vingado eu de vós então cessarei.
8 So he smote them, leg on thigh, with a great smiting, —and went down and dwelt in a cleft of the crag Etam.
E feriu-os com grande ferimento, perna juntamente com côxa: e desceu, e habitou no cume da rocha d'Etam.
9 Then went up the Philistines, and encamped in Judah, —and were spread abroad in Lehi.
Então os philisteos subiram, e acamparam-se contra Judah, e estenderam-se por Lechi,
10 And the men of Judah said, Wherefore have ye come up against us? And they said—To bind Samson, are we come up, to do unto him as he hath done unto us.
E disseram os homens de Judah: Porque subistes contra nós? E elles disseram: Subimos para amarrar a Sansão, para lhe fazer a elle como elle nos fez a nós.
11 Then went down three thousand men out of Judah, unto the cleft of the crag Etam, and said unto Samson—Knowest thou not that the Philistines are lording it over us? What, then, is this thou hast done to us? And he said unto them, As they have done to me, so, have I done to them.
Então tres mil homens de Judah desceram até á cova da rocha d'Etam, e disseram a Sansão: Não sabias tu que os philisteos dominam sobre nós? porque pois nos fizeste isto? E elle lhes disse: Assim como elles me fizeram a mim, eu lhes fiz a elles
12 And they said to him—To bind thee, are we come down, to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me, yourselves.
E disseram-lhe: Descemos para te amarrar, para te entregar nas mãos dos philisteos. Então Sansão lhes disse: Jurae-me que vós mesmos me não accommettereis.
13 And they answered him, saying—Nay; but we will, bind, thee, and deliver thee into their hand, but we will not, put thee to death. So they bound him with two new ropes, and took him up from the crag.
E elles lhe fallaram, dizendo: Não, mas fortemente te amarraremos, e te entregaremos na sua mão; porém de maneira nenhuma te mataremos. E amarraram-n'o com duas cordas novas e fizeram-n'o subir da rocha.
14 He, was coming in as far as Lehi, and, the Philistines, came shouting to meet him, —when the Spirit of Yahweh came suddenly over him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as threads of flax which have been ignited with fire, so that his bonds melted from off his hands.
E, vindo elle a Lechi, os philisteos lhe sairam ao encontro, jubilando: porém o espirito do Senhor possantemente se apossou d'elle, e as cordas que elle tinha nos braços se tornaram como fios de linho que se queimaram no fogo, e as suas amarraduras se desfizeram das suas mãos.
15 Then found he the jawbone of an ass newly-slain, —so he thrust forth his hand, and took it, and smote therewith, a thousand men.
E achou uma queixada fresca d'um jumento, e estendeu a sua mão, e tomou-a, e feriu com ella mil homens,
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, —have I piled them up in heaps! With the jawbone of an ass, have I smitten a thousand men!
Então disse Sansão: Com uma queixada de jumento um montão, dois montões; com uma queixada de jumento feri a mil homens.
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, —and called the name of that place, Ramath-lehi.
E aconteceu que, acabando elle de fallar, lançou a queixada da sua mão: e chamou áquelle logar Ramath-lechi.
18 And he was sore athirst, so he cried unto Yahweh, and said, Thou thyself, hast given, into the hand of thy servant, this great salvation, —and, now, must I die of thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
E como tivesse grande sede, clamou ao Senhor, e disse: Pela mão do teu servo tu déste esta grande salvação: morrerei eu pois agora de sede, e cairei na mão d'estes incircumcisos?
19 So then God clave open the hollow that is in Lehi, and there came therefrom water, and he drank, and his spirit came back, and he revived, —for this cause, called he the name thereof—Ain-hakkore, which is in Lehi, until this day.
Então o Senhor fendeu a caverna que estava em Lechi; e saiu d'ella agua, e bebeu; e o seu espirito tornou, e reviveu: pelo que chamou o seu nome: A fonte do que clama, que está em Lechi até ao dia d'hoje.
20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.
E julgou a Israel, nos dias dos philisteos, vinte annos.

< Judges 15 >