Ʋɔnudrɔ̃lawo 15
1 Le ɣeyiɣi kpui aɖe megbe, le luxaɣi la, Samson tsɔ gbɔ̃vi aɖe yi be yeatsɔ ana ye srɔ̃ eye yeadɔ kplii gake srɔ̃a fofo meɖe mɔ nɛ o.
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:
2 Egblɔ na Samson be, “Mebu xaa be ɖe nèlé fui eya ta metsɔe na xɔ̃wò wòɖe. Nɔvia suetɔ hã li, ame si dze tugbe wui eya ta àte ŋu aɖe eya boŋ.”
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.
3 Nu sia do dɔmedzoe na Samson ŋutɔ eya ta wòblu ɖe wo ta gblɔ be, “Ne nya aɖe dzɔ ɖe mia dzi fifia la, migabu fɔm o!”
And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
4 Nu sia ta Samson yi ɖalé abei alafa etɔ̃, sa kɔ abei eve ɖe sia ɖe ƒe asikewo ɖekae eye wòbla akakati ɖeka ɖe abei eve ɖe sia ɖe siwo ƒe asikewo wòsa ɖekae la ŋu.
And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
5 Esi dzo tɔ akakati ɖe sia ɖe eye wòna abeiawo ƒu du yi Filistitɔwo ƒe agblewo me eye wotɔ dzo lu siwo womexa haɖe o kple wainkawo kpakple amitiwo.
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.
6 Esi Filistitɔwo bia be ame kae wɔ esia la, woɖo eŋu na wo be, “Samson ye elabena srɔ̃a fofo tsɔ srɔ̃a na ŋutsu bubu wòɖe.” Ale Filistitɔwo tɔ dzo nyɔnuvi la kple fofoa kple woƒe aƒe.
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.
7 Samson ka atam be, “Magabia hlɔ̃ kokoko hafi adzudzɔ.”
But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
8 Eya ta Samson dza ali kple ata na wo hewu ame geɖewo eye wòyi ɖanɔ agado aɖe me le Etam.
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.
9 Filistitɔwo va ƒu asaɖa anyi ɖe Yuda eye wokaka ɖe Lehi.
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.
10 Yudatɔwo bia wo be, “Nu ka dim miele le afi sia?” Filistitɔwo ɖo eŋu be, “Míeva be míalé Samson eye míawɔe abe ale si wòwɔ mí ene.”
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.
11 Ale Yuda ŋutsu alafa etɔ̃ yi Samson gbɔ le agado la me le Etam. Wobiae be, “Nu kae nye nu sia si nèle mía wɔm? Ɖe mènya be Filistitɔwoe le mía dzi ɖum oa?” Samson ɖo eŋu be, “Nu si wowɔm teƒe koe meɖo na wo.”
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.
12 Wogblɔ nɛ be, “Míeva be míalé wò eye míatsɔ wò ade asi na Filistitɔwo.” Samson gblɔ be, “Mika atam nam be miawo miawum o.”
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.
13 Woɖo eŋu be, “Míelɔ̃. Ɖe ko míabla wò, atsɔ wò ade asi na wo. Míawu wò o.” Ale woblae kple atagbika yeye eve eye wokplɔe dzoe tso agakpe la dzi.
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.
14 Esi Samson kple Yuda ŋutsu siwo lée ɖo Lehi la, Filistitɔwo tso aseye kple ɣli. Enumake Yehowa ƒe ŋusẽ gaɖo Samson me eye atagbika siwo wotsɔ blae la tso abe ɖetika ko wonye ene eye woge le alɔnu nɛ!
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.
15 Etsɔ tedzi kuku aɖe ƒe glãƒu si nɔ anyigba la eye wotsɔe wu Filistitɔ akpe ɖeka.
And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
16 Emegbe la Samson gblɔ be, “Tedzi glãe metsɔ wu ame akpe ɖekae!”
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.
17 Esi wòwu nya siawo gbɔgblɔ nu la, eɖe asi le tedziglã la ŋu da ɖi. Tso gbe ma gbe dzi la, woyɔa teƒe ma be, “Ramat Lehi,” si gɔmee nye “Tedziglãtogbɛ.”
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.
18 Tsikɔ de asi Samson wuwu me vevie eya ta wòdo gbe ɖa na Yehowa gblɔ be, “Èɖe Israel nukutɔe to dzinye va se ɖe egbe! Ɖe maku azɔ le tsikɔwuame ta eye mage ɖe trɔ̃subɔla siawo si mea?”
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.
19 Ale Mawu na tsi do tso agakpe aɖe me eye esi Samson noe la, agbe gaɖo eme. Ena ŋkɔ teƒea be “En Hakore” si gɔmee nye, “Gbedoɖala Ƒe Vudo.” Eye teƒe sia gali va se ɖe egbe.
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.
20 Samson nye ʋɔnudrɔ̃la na Israel le ƒe blaeve siwo kplɔ nya siawo ɖo la me, ke Filistitɔwo gaɖu Israelnyigba la dzi kokoko.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
