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 it comes to pass after [some] days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looks after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and says, “I go in to my wife, to the inner chamber”; and her father has not permitted 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 says, “I certainly said that you surely hated her, and I give her to your companion; is her younger sister not better than she? Please let her be to you 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 says of them, “I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing evil with them.”
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 goes and catches three hundred foxes, and takes torches, and turns tail to tail, and puts a torch between the two tails, in the midst,
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 kindles fire in the torches, and sends [them] out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burns [it] from heap even to standing grain, even to vineyard [and] olive-yard.
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.
And the Philistines say, “Who has done this?” And they say, “Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken away his wife, and gives her to his companion”; and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.
7 Samson ka atam be, “Magabia hlɔ̃ kokoko hafi adzudzɔ.”
And Samson says to them, “Though you do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterward I cease!”
8 Eya ta Samson dza ali kple ata na wo hewu ame geɖewo eye wòyi ɖanɔ agado aɖe me le Etam.
And he strikes them hip and thigh [with] a great striking, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Filistitɔwo va ƒu asaɖa anyi ɖe Yuda eye wokaka ɖe Lehi.
And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in 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 say, “Why have you come up against us?” And they say, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has 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.”
And three thousand men of Judah go down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and say to Samson, “Have you now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? And what [is] this you have done to us?” And he says to them, “As they did to me, so I did 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 say to him, “We have come down to bind you—to give you into the hand of the Philistines.” And Samson says to them, “Swear to me, lest you fall on 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 speak to him, saying, “No, but we certainly bind you, and have given you into their hand, and we certainly do not put you to death”; and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring 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!
He has come to Lehi—and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him—and the Spirit of YHWH prospers over him, and the thick bands which [are] on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are melted from off his hands,
15 Etsɔ tedzi kuku aɖe ƒe glãƒu si nɔ anyigba la eye wotsɔe wu Filistitɔ akpe ɖeka.
and he finds a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and puts forth his hand and takes it, and strikes down one thousand men with it.
16 Emegbe la Samson gblɔ be, “Tedzi glãe metsɔ wu ame akpe ɖekae!”
And Samson says, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heap on heaps—I have struck down one thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey!”
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 comes to pass, when he finishes speaking, that he casts away the jawbone out of his hand, and calls that place 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 thirsts exceedingly, and calls to YHWH, and says, “You have given this great salvation by the hand of Your servant; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen 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.
And God cleaves the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinks, and his spirit comes back, and he revives; therefore [one] has called its name “The fountain of him who is calling,” which [is] in Lehi to 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 judges Israel in the days of the Philistines [for] twenty years.
