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.
But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said: 'I will go in to my wife into the chamber.' But her father would not suffer him to go in.
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.”
And her father said: 'I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, 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 said unto them: 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.'
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 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two 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 when he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing corn, and also 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?' And they said: 'Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion.' And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 Samson ka atam be, “Magabia hlɔ̃ kokoko hafi adzudzɔ.”
And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'
8 Eya ta Samson dza ali kple ata na wo hewu ame geɖewo eye wòyi ɖanɔ agado aɖe me le Etam.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Filistitɔwo va ƒu asaɖa anyi ɖe Yuda eye wokaka ɖe Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi.
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 Judah said: 'Why are ye come up against us?' And they said: 'To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to 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.”
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson: 'Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us?' And he said unto them: 'As they did unto me, so have I done unto 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 unto him: 'We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson said unto them: 'Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.'
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.
And they spoke unto him, saying: 'No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but surely we will not kill thee.' And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
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!
When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Etsɔ tedzi kuku aɖe ƒe glãƒu si nɔ anyigba la eye wotsɔe wu Filistitɔ akpe ɖeka.
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
16 Emegbe la Samson gblɔ be, “Tedzi glãe metsɔ wu ame akpe ɖekae!”
And Samson said: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten 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 it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.
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?”
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said: 'Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of Thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand 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.
But God cleaved the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came back, and he revived; wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this 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.
