Hakim-hakim 15
1 Beberapa waktu kemudian, ketika musim panen gandum, Simson pergi mengunjungi istrinya. Ia membawa seekor kambing muda untuk istrinya itu. Berkatalah Simson kepada ayah mertuanya, "Saya ingin ke kamar untuk bertemu dengan istri saya." Tetapi ayah mertuanya tidak mengizinkannya.
And it came to pass after a time, in the days of the wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber; but her father would not suffer him to go in.
2 Katanya kepada Simson, "Saya kira kau benar-benar membenci dia, jadi, ia sudah kuberikan kepada kawanmu. Tetapi kau boleh mengambil adiknya. Ia lebih cantik."
And her father said, I verily thought that thou didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her, I pray thee, be thine instead of her.
3 Berkatalah Simson, "Apa yang akan kulakukan terhadap orang Filistin kali ini, bukanlah kesalahanku!"
And Samson said to them, This time I am blameless toward the Philistines, though I do them harm.
4 Lalu ia pergi menangkap tiga ratus serigala. Buntut serigala-serigala itu diikatnya berdua-dua. Pada simpul ikatan itu, ia menaruh sebuah obor.
And Samson went and caught three hundred jackals, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between the two tails.
5 Setelah itu ia menyalakan obor-obor itu lalu melepaskan serigala-serigala itu ke dalam ladang-ladang orang Filistin. Terbakarlah semua gandum yang telah dituai di sana. Bahkan tanaman gandum dan kebun-kebun anggur pun ikut terbakar juga.
And he set the torches on fire, and let [them] run into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, and the olive gardens.
6 Orang-orang Filistin pergi menyelidiki siapa yang melakukan hal itu. Lalu orang memberitahukan kepada mereka bahwa Simsonlah yang melakukannya, karena ayah mertuanya di Timna telah memberikan istri Simson kepada seorang kawan Simson. Karena itu orang-orang Filistin membakar wanita itu serta seisi rumah ayahnya sampai habis.
And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
7 Lalu kata Simson kepada orang-orang Filistin itu, "O, begitukah caranya kalian bertindak? Saya bersumpah tidak akan tinggal diam kalau saya belum membalas hal ini kepada kalian!"
And Samson said to them, If ye act thus, for a certainty I will avenge myself on you, and then I will cease.
8 Kemudian ia menyerang mereka dengan kejam dan membunuh banyak di antara mereka. Setelah itu, ia pergi lalu tinggal di dalam gua di sebuah bukit batu di Etam.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.
9 Maka orang Filistin datang ke daerah Yehuda lalu berkemah di situ, kemudian menyerbu kota Lehi.
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Orang Yehuda bertanya kepada orang Filistin, "Mengapa kalian menyerang kami?" Mereka menjawab, "Kami datang untuk menangkap Simson supaya kami dapat memperlakukan dia seperti ia memperlakukan kami."
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 has done to us.
11 Mendengar itu, pergilah 3.000 orang Yehuda ke gua di bukit batu di Etam. Di sana mereka berkata, "Simson, apakah kau tidak tahu bahwa orang Filistin berkuasa atas kita? Apa ini yang telah kaulakukan terhadap kami!" Simson menyahut, "Saya hanya membalas apa yang mereka lakukan terhadap saya."
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the cliff Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? And what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 Kata mereka, "Kami datang untuk mengikat dan menyerahkan engkau kepada orang Filistin." Simson berkata, "Berjanjilah dahulu bahwa kalian sendiri tidak akan bunuh saya."
And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may give thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall on me yourselves.
13 "Baik," kata mereka, "memang kami hanya mau mengikat dan menyerahkan engkau kepada orang Filistin. Kami tidak akan membunuhmu." Lalu mereka mengikat dia dengan dua buah tali yang masih baru, dan membawa dia pergi dari gua itu.
And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but we certainly shall not put thee to death. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the cliff.
14 Ketika Simson dibawa sampai ke Lehi, orang-orang Filistin berlari mendatangi dia sambil menyorakinya. Tiba-tiba ia menjadi kuat oleh kuasa TUHAN. Tali-tali yang mengikat tangannya itu diputuskannya begitu saja seolah-olah tali itu tali yang hangus.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and the cords that were on his arms became as threads of flax that are burned with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 Kemudian ia menemukan sebuah tulang rahang yang masih baru dari seekor keledai. Ia memungut tulang itu, lalu memakainya untuk memukul 1.000 orang sampai mati.
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew with it a thousand men.
16 Maka bernyanyilah Simson, "Dengan rahang keledai, kuhajar seribu orang; dengan rahang keledai, kutumpuk mayat-mayat mereka."
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, a heap, two heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
17 Setelah itu, ia membuang tulang rahang itu. Itu sebabnya tempat tersebut dinamakan Ramat-Lehi.
And it came to pass when he had ended speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.
18 Kemudian Simson merasa haus sekali, sehingga ia berseru kepada TUHAN. Ia berkata, "TUHAN, baru saja Engkau memberikan kemenangan yang besar ini kepada saya. Sekarang haruskah saya mati kehausan, sehingga ditangkap oleh orang-orang Filistin ini yang tidak mengenal Engkau?"
And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given by the hand of thy servant this great deliverance, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 Maka Allah membuka lubang di bukit batu di Lehi itu, lalu keluarlah air dari situ. Simson minum, kemudian merasa segar kembali. Itu sebabnya sumber air itu disebut Sumber Air Hakor. Sumber air ini masih ada di Lehi.
And God clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 Dua puluh tahun lamanya Simson memimpin umat Israel waktu mereka dikuasai orang Filistin.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
