Jueces 15
1 Algún tiempo después, cuando se estaba cosechando el trigo, Sansón fue a visitar a su mujer, llevando consigo un cabrito de regalo. “Quiero ir a ver a mi mujer a su habitación”, le dijo al llegar, pero su padre no lo dejó entrar.
And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying:
2 “Pensé que la odiabas por completo y por eso se la di a tu padrino”, le dijo a Sansón. “Pero su hermana menor es aún más atractiva; ¿por qué no te casas con ella en su lugar?”.
I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.
3 “Esta vez no se me puede culpar por los problemas que le voy a causar a los filisteos”, declaró Sansón.
And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
4 Entonces fue y atrapó trescientas zorras y les ató las colas, de dos en dos.
And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
5 Ató una antorcha a cada una de las colas atadas y les prendió fuego. Luego las soltó en los campos de cereales de los filisteos y prendió fuego a todo el grano, cosechado y no cosechado, así como a los viñedos y olivares.
And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch, that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.
6 “¿Quién ha hecho esto?”, preguntaron los filisteos. “Fue Sansón, el yerno del hombre de Timná”, les dijeron. “Ese hombre le dio la mujer de Sansón al padrino de Sansón”. Entonces los filisteos fueron y la quemaron a ella y a su padre hasta la muerte.
Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.
7 Sansón les dijo: “¡Si así van a actuar, no pararé hasta vengarme de ustedes!”
But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
8 Entonces los atacó violentamente, matándolos, y luego se fue a vivir a una cueva en la roca de Etam.
And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.
9 Entonces el ejército filisteo llegó y acampó en Judá, preparado para la batalla cerca de Lehi.
Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread.
10 El pueblo de Judá preguntó: “¿Por qué nos han invadido?” “¡Hemos venido a capturar a Sansón, para hacerle lo mismo que nos ha hecho a nosotros!”, respondieron.
And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay him for what he hath done against us.
11 Tres mil hombres de Judá fueron a la cueva de la roca de Etam y le preguntaron a Sansón: “¿No entiendes que los filisteos nos dominan? ¿Qué crees que estás haciendo con nosotros?” “Sólo hice lo que ellos me hicieron a mí”, respondió.
Wherefore three thousand men of Juda, went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 “Pues bien, hemos venido a tomarte prisionero y a entregarte a los filisteos”, le dijeron. “Sólo júrenme que no me van a matar ustedes”, respondió Sansón.
And they said to him, We are come to bind thee and to deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear to me, and promise me, that you will not kill me.
13 “No, no lo haremos”, le aseguraron. “Sólo te ataremos y te entregaremos a los filisteos. Desde luego, no te vamos a matar”. Lo ataron con dos cuerdas nuevas y lo sacaron de la roca.
They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.
14 Cuando Sansón se acercó a Lejí, los filisteos corrieron hacia él, gritándole. Pero el Espíritu del Señor lo invadió, y las cuerdas que le ataban los brazos se debilitaron como el lino quemado, y sus manos se soltaron.
Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as the flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.
15 Agarró la mandíbula fresca de un asno y con ella mató a mil filisteos.
And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
16 Entonces Sansón declaró: “Con la quijada de un asno he amontonado a los muertos. Con la quijada de un asno he matado a mil hombres”.
And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.
17 Cuando Sansón terminó su discurso, tiró la quijada y llamó al lugar Colina de la Quijada.
And when he had ended these words singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.
18 Ahora tenía mucha sed, y Sansón clamó al Señor diciendo: “Tú has logrado esta asombrosa victoria por medio de tu siervo, pero ¿ahora tengo que morir de sed y ser capturado por los paganos?”
Arid being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.
19 Entonces Dios abrió una hondonada en Lejí, y salió agua de ella. Sansón bebió, recuperó las fuerzas y se sintió mucho mejor. Por eso le puso el nombre de Manantial del que clama, y hasta el día de hoy sigue allí en Lejí.
Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass, and waters issued out of it. And when he had drank them he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.
20 Sansón dirigió a Israel como juez por veinte años durante el tiempo de los filisteos.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
