Kaiwhakariterite 15
1 Otiia i muri iho, na ka haere a Hamahona, me tetahi kuao koati, i te wa o te kotinga witi, kia kite i tana wahine, a ka mea, Ka haere ahau ki taku wahine ki roto ki te whare moenga. Otiia kihai ia i tukua e te papa o te wahine kia haere ki roto.
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
2 I mea hoki tona papa, i tino mea ahau e kino rawa ana koe ki a ia; na hoatu ana ia e ahau ma tou hoa; kahore ianei tona teina e pai atu i a ia? Tena kia riro tenei i a koe hei utu mo tera.
Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her, instead."
3 Na ka mea a Hamahona ki a ratou, Engari i tenei, ka kore hara ahau ki nga Pirihitini, ina tukino ahau ki a ratou.
Samson said to him, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."
4 Na haere ana a Hamahona, a hopukia ana e ia e toru rau nga pokiha; katahi ka tikina etahi rama e ia, a whakaangahia atu ana nga hiawero ki a raua whaka hiawero, a whakanohoia iho he rama ki waenganui o nga hiawero e rua.
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 Na ka tahuna e ia nga rama, a tukua atu ana ki te witi a nga Pirihitini, wera ake nga puranga witi, me nga mea ano e tu ana; nga mara waina, oriwa ano hoki.
And when he had set fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
6 A ka ki nga Pirihitini, Na wai tenei mahi? na ka korerotia, Na Hamahona hunaonga a te Timini; mona i tango i tana wahine, a hoatu ana ki tona hoa. Katahi ka haere nga Pirihitini, a tahuna ake e ratou te wahine raua ko tona papa ki te ahi.
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.
7 Na ka mea a Hamahona ki a ratou, Ahakoa kua meatia tenei e koutou, he pono ka rapu utu ano ahau i a koutou, a muri iho ka mutu taku.
Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease."
8 Na tukitukia ana ratou e ia, te papa, te huha, he nui te patunga, a haere ana, noho ana i te kapiti o te kamaka i Etama.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Katahi ka haere nga Pirihitini, noho ana i Hura, tohatoha noa atu i Rehi.
Then the Philistines went up, and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
10 Na ka mea nga tangata o Hura, He aha koutou i haere mai ai ki a matou? Na ka mea ratou, He here i a Hamahona i haere mai ai matou, kia meatia ki a ia tana i mea ai ki a matou.
The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us."
11 Katahi ka haere etahi tangata o Hura, e toru nga mano, ki te kapiti o te kohatu i Etama, ka mea ki a Hamahona, Kahore ianei koe e mohio he rangatira no tatou nga Pirihitini? he mahi aha tenei nau ki a matou? Na ka mea ia ki a ratou, Rite tonu ki ta ratou i mea mai ai ki ahau, taku i mea ai ki a ratou.
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."
12 Na ka mea ratou ki a ia, He here i a koe i haere mai ai matou, kia hoatu koe ki te ringa o nga Pirihitini. Na ka mea a Hamahona ki a ratou, Oati mai ki ahau e kore koutou na e rere ki runga ki ahau.
They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves."
13 Na ka korero ratou ki a ia, ka mea, Kahore; erangi me ata here koe e matou, a ka hoatu koe ki to ratou ringa: ko te whakamate ia, e kore matou e whakamate i a koe. Na ka herea ia e ratou ki nga taura hou e rua, a kawea atu ana i te kamaka.
They spoke to him, saying, "No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 I tona taenga ki Rehi, na ka hamama nga Pirihitini i te tutakitanga ki a ia. Ko te tino putanga o te wairua o Ihowa ki runga ki a ia: na rite tonu nga taura i ona ringa ki te muka kua wera i te ahi; harotu noa iho nga here o ona ringa.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Ruach of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Na kia pono ia ki tetahi kauae kaihe, he mea hou, a totoro atu ana tona ringa, tangohia ake ana; na kotahi mano tangata i patua e ia ki taua mea.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Na ka mea a Hamahona, Na te kauae kaihe, puranga atu, puranga atu; na te kauae kaihe, patua iho e ahau kotahi mano tangata.
Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."
17 A, i te mutunga o tana korero, na maka atu ana e ia te kauae i tona ringa, a huaina iho te ingoa o tena wahi, Ko Ramatarehi.
It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Na nui rawa tona matewai, a ka karanga ia ki a Ihowa, ka mea, Nau i homai tenei whakaoranga nui ki te ringa o tau pononga, a ka mate nei ahau i te matewai, ka hinga hoki i te ringa o te hunga kokotikore?
He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"
19 Na ka wahia e te Atua he poka i Rehi, a ka puta mai he wai i reira. Katahi ka inu ia, a hoki ana tona wairua, na kua ora ia. Na reira i huaina ai to reira ingoa, Ko Enehakore: kei Rehi na ano a tae noa ki tenei ra.
And God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
20 Na e rua tekau nga tau i whakarite ai ia mo Iharaira i nga ra o nga Pirihitini.
He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
