Juízes 15
1 E aconteceu depois de dias, que no tempo da colheita do trigo, Sansão visitou à sua mulher com um cabrito, dizendo: Entrarei à minha mulher à câmara. Mas o pai dela não o deixou entrar.
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:
2 E disse o pai dela: Persuadi-me que a aborrecias, e dei-a a teu companheiro. Mas sua irmã menor, não é mais bela que ela? Toma-a, pois, em seu lugar.
“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.”
3 E Sansão lhes respondeu: Eu serei sem culpa esta vez para com os filisteus, se mal lhes fizer.
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.”
4 E foi Sansão e agarrou trezentas raposas, e tomando tochas, e segurando aquelas pelas caudas, pôs entre cada duas caudas uma tocha.
And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails.
5 Depois, acendendo as tochas, lançou as raposas nas plantações dos filisteus, e queimou pilhas de cereais e cereais nos pés, e vinhas e olivais.
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.
6 E disseram os filisteus: Quem fez isto? E foi-lhes dito: Sansão, o genro do timnateu, porque lhe tirou sua mulher e a deu a seu companheiro. E vieram os filisteus, e queimaram a fogo a ela e a seu pai.
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.
7 Então Sansão lhes disse: Assim o havíeis de fazer? Mas eu me vingarei de vós, e depois cessarei.
And Samson said to them, “Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted.”
8 E feriu-os perna e coxa com grande mortandade; e desceu, e ficou na caverna da penha de Etã.
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.
9 E os filisteus subiram e puseram acampamento em Judá, e estenderam-se por Leí.
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.
10 E os homens de Judá lhes disseram: Por que subistes contra nós? E eles responderam: A prender a Sansão subimos, para fazer-lhe como ele nos fez.
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.”
11 E vieram três mil homens de Judá à caverna da penha de Etã, e disseram a Sansão: Não sabes tu que os filisteus dominam sobre nós? Por que nos fizeste isto? E ele lhes respondeu: Eu lhes fiz como eles me fizeram.
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.”
12 Eles então lhe disseram: Nós viemos para prender-te, e entregar-te em mão dos filisteus. E Sansão lhes respondeu: Jurai-me que vós não me matareis.
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.”
13 E eles lhe responderam, dizendo: Não, somente te prenderemos, e te entregaremos em suas mãos; mas não te mataremos. Então lhe ataram com duas cordas novas, e fizeram-lhe vir da penha.
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.
14 E assim que veio até Leí, os filisteus lhe saíram a receber com gritos de vitória: e o espírito do SENHOR caiu sobre ele, e as cordas que estavam em seus braços se tornaram como linho queimado com fogo, e as amarras se caíram de suas mãos.
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.
15 E achando uma queixada de asno fresca, estendeu a mão e tomou-a, e feriu com ela a mil homens.
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.
16 Então Sansão disse: Com a queixada de um asno, um amontoado, dois amontoados; Com a queixada de um asno feri mil homens.
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.”
17 E acabando de falar, lançou de sua mão a queixada, e chamou a aquele lugar Ramate-Leí.
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.’
18 E tendo grande sede, clamou logo ao SENHOR, e disse: Tu deste esta grande salvação por meio de teu servo: e morrerei eu agora de sede, e cairei em mão dos incircuncisos?
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.”
19 Então quebrou Deus uma cavidade em Leí, e saíram dali águas, e bebeu, e recuperou seu espírito, e reanimou-se. Portanto chamou seu nome daquele lugar, En-Hacoré, o qual é em Leí, até hoje.
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.
20 E julgou a Israel nos dias dos filisteus vinte anos.
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.
