داوران 15
| پس از مدتی، در موقع درو گندم، سامسون بزغاله‌ای به عنوان هدیه برداشت تا پیش زن خود برود. اما پدرزنش وی را به خانه راه نداد، | 1 |
Then, after some time, when the days of the wheat harvest were near, Samson arrived, intending to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid from the goats. And when he wanted to enter her bedroom, as usual, her father prohibited him, saying:
| و گفت: «من گمان می‌کردم تو از او نفرت داری، از این رو وی را به عقد ساقدوش تو درآوردم. اما خواهر کوچکش از او خیلی زیباتر است؛ می‌توانی با او ازدواج کنی.» | 2 |
“I thought that you would hate her, and therefore I gave her to your friend. But she has a sister, who is younger and more beautiful than she is. And she may be a wife for you, instead of her.”
| سامسون فریاد زد: «اکنون هر بلایی بر سر فلسطینی‌ها بیاورم گناهش به گردن من نیست.» | 3 |
And Samson answered him: “From this day, there shall be no guilt for me against the Philistines. For I will do harm to you all.”
| پس بیرون رفته، سیصد شغال گرفت و دمهای آنها را جفت‌جفت به هم بست و در میان هر جفت مشعلی قرار داد. | 4 |
And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails.
| بعد مشعلها را آتش زد و شغالها را در میان کشتزارهای فلسطینیان رها نمود. با این عمل تمام محصول و درختان زیتون سوخته و نابود شد. | 5 |
And setting these on fire, he released them, so that they might rush from place to place. And immediately they went into the grain fields of the Philistines, setting these on fire, both the grain that was already bound for carrying, and what was still standing on the stalk. These were completely burned up, so much so that the flame also consumed even the vineyards and the olive groves.
| فلسطینی‌ها از یکدیگر می‌پرسیدند: «چه کسی این کار را کرده است؟» سرانجام فهمیدند که کار سامسون داماد تمنی بوده است، زیرا تمنی زن او را به مرد دیگری داده بود. پس فلسطینی‌ها آن دختر را با پدرش زنده‌زنده سوزانیدند. | 6 |
And the Philistines said, “Who has done this thing?” And it was said: “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another. He has done these things.” And the Philistines went up and burned the woman as well as her father.
| سامسون وقتی این را شنید خشمگین شد و قسم خورد که تا انتقام آنها را نگیرد آرام ننشیند. | 7 |
And Samson said to them, “Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted.”
| پس با بی‌رحمی بر فلسطینی‌ها حمله برده، بسیاری از آنها را کشت، سپس به صخرهٔ عیطام رفت و در غاری ساکن شد. | 8 |
And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave of the rock at Etam.
| فلسطینی‌ها نیز سپاهی بزرگ به سرزمین یهودا فرستادند و شهر لحی را محاصره کردند. | 9 |
And so the Philistines, ascending into the land of Judah, made camp at the place which was later called Lehi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army spread out.
| اهالی یهودا پرسیدند: «چرا ما را محاصره کرده‌اید؟» فلسطینی‌ها جواب دادند: «آمده‌ایم تا سامسون را بگیریم و بلایی را که بر سر ما آورد بر سرش بیاوریم.» | 10 |
And some from the tribe of Judah said to them, “Why have you ascended against us?” And they responded, “We have come to bind Samson, and to repay him for what he has done to us.”
| پس سه هزار نفر از مردان یهودا به غار صخرهٔ عیطام نزد سامسون رفتند و به او گفتند: «این چه کاریست که کردی؟ مگر نمی‌دانی که ما زیر دست فلسطینی‌ها هستیم؟» ولی سامسون جواب داد: «من فقط آنچه را که بر سر من آورده بودند، تلافی کردم.» | 11 |
Then three thousand men of Judah descended to the cave of the rock at Etam. And they said to Samson: “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why would you want to do this?” And he said to them, “As they have done to me, so I have done to them.”
| مردان یهودا گفتند: «ما آمده‌ایم تو را ببندیم و به فلسطینی‌ها تحویل دهیم.» سامسون گفت: «بسیار خوب، ولی به من قول دهید که خود شما مرا نکشید.» | 12 |
And they said to him, “We have come to bind you, and to deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear and promise to me that you will not kill me.”
| آنها جواب دادند: «تو را نخواهیم کشت.» پس با دو طناب نو او را بستند و با خود بردند. | 13 |
They said: “We will not kill you. But we will deliver you tied.” And they bound him with two new cords. And they took him from the rock at Etam.
| چون سامسون به لحی رسید، فلسطینی‌ها از دیدن او بانگ برآوردند. در این هنگام روح خداوند بر سامسون قرار گرفت و طنابهایی که به دستهایش بسته شده بود مثل نخی که به آتش سوخته شود از هم باز شد. | 14 |
And when he had arrived at the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines, shouting aloud, had met him, the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. And just as flax is usually consumed by a hint of fire, so were the ties with which he was bound broken and released.
| آنگاه استخوان چانهٔ الاغی مرده را که بر زمین افتاده بود برداشت و با آن هزار نفر از فلسطینی‌ها را کشت. | 15 |
And finding a jawbone which was laying there, that is, the jawbone of a donkey, snatching it up, he put to death a thousand men with it.
| سپس گفت: «با چانه‌ای از یک الاغ از کشته‌ها پشته‌ها ساخته‌ام، با چانه‌ای از یک الاغ یک هزار مرد را من کشته‌ام.» | 16 |
And he said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, with the jaw of the colt of a donkey, I have destroyed them, and I have struck down a thousand men.”
| سپس چانهٔ الاغ را به دور انداخت و آن مکان را رَمَت‌لَحی (یعنی «تپهٔ استخوان چانه») نامید. | 17 |
And when he had completed these words, singing, he threw the jawbone from his hand. And called the name of that place Ramath-Lehi, which is translated as ‘the elevation of the jawbone.’
| سامسون بسیار تشنه شد. پس نزد خداوند دعا کرده، گفت: «امروز این پیروزی عظیم را به بنده‌ات دادی؛ ولی اکنون از تشنگی می‌میرم و به دست این بت‌پرستان گرفتار می‌شوم.» | 18 |
And being very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, and he said: “You have given, to the hand of your servant, this very great salvation and victory. But see that I am dying of thirst, and so I will fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.”
| پس خداوند از داخل گودالی که در آنجا بود آب بر زمین جاری ساخت. سامسون از آن آب نوشید و روحش تازه شد. سپس آن چشمه را عین‌حقوری (یعنی «چشمهٔ مردی که دعا کرد») نامید. این چشمه تا به امروز در آنجا باقیست. | 19 |
And so the Lord opened a large tooth in the jawbone of the donkey, and water went out from it. And having drank it, his spirit was revived, and he recovered his strength. For this reason, the name of that place was called ‘the Spring called forth from the jawbone,’ even to the present day.
| سامسون مدت بیست سال رهبری اسرائیل را به عهده داشت، ولی فلسطینی‌ها هنوز هم بر سرزمین آنها مسلط بودند. | 20 |
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.
