< Juízes 15 >
1 E aconteceu, depois d'alguns dias, que na sega do trigo Sansão visitou a sua mulher com um cabrito, e disse: Entrarei na camara a minha mulher. Porém o pae d'ella não o deixou entrar.
And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into the chamber: but her father did not suffer him to go in.
2 Porque disse seu pae: Por certo dizia eu que de todo a aborrecias: de sorte que a dei ao teu companheiro: porém não é sua irmã mais nova, mais formosa do que ella? toma-a pois em seu logar.
And her father spoke, saying, I said that you did surely hate her, and I gave her to one of your friends: [is] not her younger sister better than she? let her be to you instead of her.
3 Então Sansão disse ácerca d'elles: Innocente sou esta vez para com os philisteos, quando lhes fizer algum mal.
And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief amongst them.
4 E foi Sansão, e tomou trezentas raposas: e, tomando tições, as virou cauda a cauda, e lhes poz um tição no meio de cada duas caudas.
And Sampson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch between two tails, and fastened it.
5 E chegou fogo aos tições, e largou-as na seara dos philisteos: e assim abrazou os molhos com a sega do trigo, e as vinhas com os olivaes.
And he set fire to the torches, and sent [the foxes] into the corn of the Philistines; and every thing was burnt from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
6 Então disseram os philisteos: Quem fez isto? E disseram: Sansão, o genro do Timnatha, porque lhe tomou a sua mulher, e a deu a seu companheiro. Então subiram os philisteos, e queimaram a fogo a ella e a seu pae.
And the Philistines said, Who [has done] these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.
7 Então lhes disse Sansão: Assim o haveis de fazer? pois havendo-me vingado eu de vós então cessarei.
And Sampson said to them, Though you may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.
8 E feriu-os com grande ferimento, perna juntamente com côxa: e desceu, e habitou no cume da rocha d'Etam.
And he struck them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down and lived in a cave of the rock Etam.
9 Então os philisteos subiram, e acamparam-se contra Judah, e estenderam-se por Lechi,
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.
10 E disseram os homens de Judah: Porque subistes contra nós? E elles disseram: Subimos para amarrar a Sansão, para lhe fazer a elle como elle nos fez a nós.
And the men of Juda said, Why are you come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Então tres mil homens de Judah desceram até á cova da rocha d'Etam, e disseram a Sansão: Não sabias tu que os philisteos dominam sobre nós? porque pois nos fizeste isto? E elle lhes disse: Assim como elles me fizeram a mim, eu lhes fiz a elles
And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Know you not that the Philistines rule over us? and what [is] this [that] you have done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 E disseram-lhe: Descemos para te amarrar, para te entregar nas mãos dos philisteos. Então Sansão lhes disse: Jurae-me que vós mesmos me não accommettereis.
And they said to him, We are come down to bind you to deliver you into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 E elles lhe fallaram, dizendo: Não, mas fortemente te amarraremos, e te entregaremos na sua mão; porém de maneira nenhuma te mataremos. E amarraram-n'o com duas cordas novas e fizeram-n'o subir da rocha.
And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand, and will by no means kill you: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
14 E, vindo elle a Lechi, os philisteos lhe sairam ao encontro, jubilando: porém o espirito do Senhor possantemente se apossou d'elle, e as cordas que elle tinha nos braços se tornaram como fios de linho que se queimaram no fogo, e as suas amarraduras se desfizeram das suas mãos.
And they came to Lechi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burnt with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
15 E achou uma queixada fresca d'um jumento, e estendeu a sua mão, e tomou-a, e feriu com ella mil homens,
And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and struck with it a thousand men.
16 Então disse Sansão: Com uma queixada de jumento um montão, dois montões; com uma queixada de jumento feri a mil homens.
And Sampson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass I have utterly destroyed them, for with the jaw-bone of an ass I have struck a thousand men.
17 E aconteceu que, acabando elle de fallar, lançou a queixada da sua mão: e chamou áquelle logar Ramath-lechi.
And it came to pass when he ceased speaking, that he cast the jaw-bone out of his hand; and he called that place the Lifting of the jaw-bone.
18 E como tivesse grande sede, clamou ao Senhor, e disse: Pela mão do teu servo tu déste esta grande salvação: morrerei eu pois agora de sede, e cairei na mão d'estes incircumcisos?
And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, You have been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of your servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 Então o Senhor fendeu a caverna que estava em Lechi; e saiu d'ella agua, e bebeu; e o seu espirito tornou, e reviveu: pelo que chamou o seu nome: A fonte do que clama, que está em Lechi até ao dia d'hoje.
And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called 'The well of the invoker,' which is in Lechi, until this day.
20 E julgou a Israel, nos dias dos philisteos, vinte annos.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.