Juízes 15
1 E aconteceu, depois de alguns dias, que na sega do trigo Sansão visitou a sua mulher com um cabrito, e disse: Entrarei na câmara a minha mulher. Porém o pai dela 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 pai: 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 ela? toma-a pois em seu lugar.
And her father spoke, saying, I said that thou didst surely hate her, and I gave her to one of thy friends: [is] not her younger sister better than she? let her be to thee instead of her.
3 Então Sansão disse acerca deles: inocente sou esta vez para com os philisteus, 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 among them.
4 E foi Sansão, e tomou trezentas raposas: e, tomando tições, as virou cauda a cauda, e lhes pôs 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 philisteus: e assim abrazou os molhos com a sega do trigo, e as vinhas com os olivais.
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 philisteus: 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 philisteus, e queimaram a fogo a ela e a seu pai.
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 ye 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 coxa: e desceu, e habitou no cume da rocha de Etam.
And he smote them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.
9 Então os philisteus subiram, e acamparam-se contra Judá, 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 Judá: Porque subistes contra nós? E eles disseram: Subimos para amarrar a Sansão, para lhe fazer a ele como ele nos fez a nós.
And the men of Juda said, Why are ye 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 três mil homens de Judá desceram até à cova da rocha de Etam, e disseram a Sansão: Não sabias tu que os philisteus dominam sobre nós? porque pois nos fizeste isto? E ele lhes disse: Assim como eles me fizeram a mim, eu lhes fiz a eles
And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? and what [is] this [that] thou hast 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 philisteus. Então Sansão lhes disse: jurai-me que vós mesmos me não acometereis.
And they said to him, We are come down to bind thee to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 E eles lhe falaram, dizendo: Não, mas fortemente te amarraremos, e te entregaremos na sua mão; porém de maneira nenhuma te mataremos. E amarraram-no com duas cordas novas e fizeram-no subir da rocha.
And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, and will by no means slay thee: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
14 E, vindo ele a Lechi, os philisteus lhe sairam ao encontro, jubilando: porém o espírito do Senhor possantemente se apossou dele, e as cordas que ele 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 dum jumento, e estendeu a sua mão, e tomou-a, e feriu com ela 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 smote 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 smitten a thousand men.
17 E aconteceu que, acabando ele de falar, lançou a queixada da sua mão: e chamou àquele lugar 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 deste esta grande salvação: morrerei eu pois agora de sede, e cairei na mão destes incircuncisos?
And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, Thou hast been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of thy 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 dela água, e bebeu; e o seu espírito tornou, e reviveu: pelo que chamou o seu nome: A fonte do que clama, que está em Lechi até ao dia de 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 philisteus, vinte anos.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
