Judges 14
1 One day when Samson was in Timnah [town], he saw a young Philistine woman there.
| و شمشون به تمنه فرود آمده، زنی ازدختران فلسطینیان در تمنه دید. | ۱ |
2 When he returned home, he told his mother and father, “I saw a young Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want you to get her for me so I can marry her.”
| وآمده، به پدر و مادر خود بیان کرده، گفت: «زنی ازدختران فلسطینیان در تمنه دیدم، پس الان او رابرای من به زنی بگیرید.» | ۲ |
3 His mother and father objected very strongly. They said, “Is there no woman from our tribe, or from the other Israeli tribes, that you could marry? Why must you go to the heathen Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She is the one I want!”
| پدر و مادرش وی راگفتند: «آیا از دختران برادرانت و در تمامی قوم من دختری نیست که تو باید بروی و از فلسطینیان نامختون زن بگیری؟» شمشون به پدر خود گفت: «او را برای من بگیر زیرا در نظر من پسند آمد.» | ۳ |
4 His mother and father did not realize that Yahweh was arranging this. He was preparing a way for [Samson to defeat] the Philistines, who were ruling over Israel at that time.
| اما پدر و مادرش نمی دانستند که این از جانب خداوند است، زیرا که بر فلسطینیان علتی می‌خواست، چونکه در آن وقت فلسطینیان براسرائیل تسلط می‌داشتند. | ۴ |
5 So, as Samson was going down to Timnah, followed by his mother and father, a young lion attacked Samson near the vineyards close to Timnah.
| پس شمشون با پدر و مادر خود به تمنه فرودآمد، و چون به تاکستانهای تمنه رسیدند، اینک شیری جوان بر او بغرید. | ۵ |
6 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully, with the result that he tore the lion apart with his hands. He did it [as easily] as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his mother and father about it.
| و روح خداوند بر اومستقر شده، آن را درید به طوری که بزغاله‌ای دریده شود، و چیزی در دستش نبود و پدر و مادرخود را از آنچه کرده بود، اطلاع نداد. | ۶ |
7 When they arrived in Timnah, Samson talked with the young woman, and he liked her very much. [And his father made arrangements for the wedding].
| و رفته، باآن زن سخن گفت وبه نظر شمشون پسند آمد. | ۷ |
8 Later, when Samson returned to Timnah for the wedding, he turned off the path to see the carcass of the lion. He discovered that [after other creatures had eaten all the flesh], a swarm of bees [had made a hive in the skeleton and] had made some honey.
| وچون بعد از چندی برای گرفتنش برمی گشت، ازراه به کنار رفت تا لاشه شیر را ببیند و اینک انبوه زنبور، و عسل در لاشه شیر بود. | ۸ |
9 So he scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate some of it as he was walking along. He also gave some of it to his mother and father, but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the skeleton of the lion, [because anyone dedicated to God was not to touch any corpse].
| و آن را به دست خود گرفته، روان شد و در رفتن می‌خورد تابه پدر و مادر خود رسیده، به ایشان داد وخوردند. اما به ایشان نگفت که عسل را از لاشه شیر گرفته بود. | ۹ |
10 As his father was making the final arrangements for the marriage, Samson gave a party [for the young men in that area]. That was the custom for men to do when they were about to be married.
| و پدرش نزد آن زن آمد و شمشون در آنجامهمانی کرد، زیرا که جوانان چنین عادت داشتند. | ۱۰ |
11 Thirty young man were invited to the party.
| و واقع شد که چون او را دیدند، سی رفیق انتخاب کردند تا همراه او باشند. | ۱۱ |
12 Samson said to them, “Allow me to tell you a riddle. If you tel me the meaning of my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give each of you a linen robe and an extra set of clothes.
| و شمشون به ایشان گفت: «معمایی برای شما می‌گویم، اگر آن را برای من در هفت روز مهمانی حل کنید و آن رادریافت نمایید، به شما سی جامه کتان و سی دست رخت می‌دهم. | ۱۲ |
13 But if you cannot tell me the meaning, you must each give me a linen robe and an extra set of clothes.” They replied, “All right. Tell us your riddle.”
| و اگر آن را برای من نتوانید حل کنید آنگاه شما سی جامه کتان و سی دست رخت به من بدهید.» ایشان به وی گفتند: «معمای خود را بگو تا آن را بشنویم.» | ۱۳ |
14 So he said, “From the thing that eats came something to eat; out of something strong came something sweet.” But for three days they could not tell him the meaning of the riddle.
| به ایشان گفت: «از خورنده خوراک بیرون آمد، و اززورآور شیرینی بیرون آمد.» و ایشان تا سه روزمعما را نتوانستند حل کنند. | ۱۴ |
15 On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s bride, “Ask your husband to tell you the meaning of the riddle. If you do not do that, we will burn down your father’s house, with you inside it! Did you invite us here only to make us poor [by forcing us to buy a lot of clothes for your husband]?”
| و واقع شد که در روز هفتم به زن شمشون گفتند: «شوهر خود را ترغیب نما تا معمای خودرا برای ما بیان کند مبادا تو را و خانه پدر تو را به آتش بسوزانیم، آیا ما را دعوت کرده‌اید تا ما راتاراج نمایید یا نه.» | ۱۵ |
16 So Samson’s wife came to him, crying, and said to him, “You do not really love me. You hate me! You have told a riddle to my friends, but you have not told me the meaning of the riddle!” He replied, “I have not told the meaning of the riddle even to my mother and father, so why should I tell it to you?”
| پس زن شمشون پیش اوگریسته، گفت: «به درستی که مرا بغض می‌نمایی و دوست نمی داری زیرا معمایی به پسران قوم من گفته‌ای و آن را برای من بیان نکردی.» او وی راگفت: «اینک برای پدر و مادر خود بیان نکردم، آیابرای تو بیان کنم.» | ۱۶ |
17 She continued to cry every time she was with him, all during the rest of the celebration. Finally, on the seventh day, because she continued to nag him, he told her the meaning of the riddle. Then she told it to the young men.
| و در هفت روزی که ضیافت ایشان می‌بود پیش او می‌گریست، و واقع شد که در روز هفتم چونکه او را بسیار الحاح می‌نمود، برایش بیان کرد و او معما را به پسران قوم خودگفت. | ۱۷ |
18 So, before sunset on the seventh day, the young men came to Samson and said to him, “What/Nothing is sweeter than honey [RHQ]. What/Nothing is stronger than a lion [RHQ]!” Samson replied, “[You should not force a heifer to] plow a field [MET]. Similarly, if you had not forced my bride to ask me about the riddle [MET], you would not have known the answer to my riddle!”
| و در روز هفتم مردان شهر پیش از غروب آفتاب به وی گفتند که «چیست شیرین تراز عسل و چیست زورآورتر از شیر.» او به ایشان گفت: «اگر با گاو من خیش نمی کردید، معمای مرادریافت نمی نمودید.» | ۱۸ |
19 Then Yahweh’s Spirit powerfully took control of Samson. He went down to [the coast at] Ashkelon [town], and killed 30 men. He took their clothes [and went back to Timnah] and gave them to the men who had told him the meaning of the riddle. But he was very angry about what had happened, so he went back home to live with his mother and father.
| و روح خداوند بر وی مستقر شده، به اشقلون رفت و از اهل آنجا سی نفر را کشت، و اسباب آنها را گرفته، دسته های رخت را به آنانی که معما را بیان کرده بودند، داد وخشمش افروخته شده، به خانه پدر خودبرگشت. | ۱۹ |
20 So (Samson’s wife was given/the bride’s father gave Samson’s wife) to the man who who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding, [but Samson did not know that].
| و زن شمشون به رفیقش که او رادوست خود می‌شمرد، داده شد. | ۲۰ |
