Jueces 15
1 Pero al cabo de un tiempo, en la época de la cosecha del trigo, Sansón visitó a su mujer con un cabrito. Dijo: “Entraré en la habitación de mi mujer”. Pero su padre no le permitió entrar.
Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.
2 Su padre le dijo: “Ciertamente pensé que la odiabas por completo; por eso se la di a tu compañera. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Por favor, tómala a ella en su lugar”.
And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.
3 Sansón les dijo: “Esta vez seré irreprochable ante los filisteos cuando les haga daño”.
Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.
4 Sansón fue y atrapó trescientas zorras, tomó antorchas, les dio la vuelta a la cola y puso una antorcha en medio de cada dos colas.
So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;
5 Después de prender las antorchas, las dejó entrar en el grano en pie de los filisteos, y quemó tanto los choques como el grano en pie, y también los olivares.
Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.
6 Entonces los filisteos dijeron: “¿Quién ha hecho esto?” Dijeron: “Sansón, el yerno del timnita, porque ha tomado a su mujer y se la ha dado a su compañero”. Los filisteos subieron, y la quemaron a ella y a su padre con fuego.
Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his friend. So the Philistines came up and had her and her father's house burned.
7 Sansón les dijo: “Si os comportáis así, ciertamente me vengaré de vosotros, y después cesaré”.
And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.
8 Los golpeó en la cadera y en el muslo con una gran matanza, y descendió y vivió en la cueva de la roca de Etam.
And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.
9 Entonces los filisteos subieron, acamparon en Judá y se extendieron en Lehi.
Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.
10 Los hombres de Judá dijeron: “¿Por qué has subido contra nosotros?” Dijeron: “Hemos subido para atar a Sansón, para hacer con él lo que él ha hecho con nosotros”.
And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to take Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Entonces tres mil hombres de Judá bajaron a la cueva de la roca de Etam y le dijeron a Sansón: “¿No sabes que los filisteos nos dominan? ¿Qué es, pues, lo que nos has hecho?” Les dijo: “Como me hicieron a mí, así les he hecho yo”.
Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.
12 Le dijeron: “Hemos bajado para atarte y entregarte en manos de los filisteos”. Sansón les dijo: “Júrenme que no me atacarán ustedes mismos”.
Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.
13 Le hablaron diciendo: “No, sino que te ataremos bien y te entregaremos en sus manos; pero seguro que no te mataremos”. Lo ataron con dos cuerdas nuevas y lo sacaron de la roca.
And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.
14 Cuando llegó a Lehi, los filisteos gritaron al recibirlo. Entonces el Espíritu de Yahvé vino poderosamente sobre él, y las cuerdas que tenía en sus brazos se volvieron como lino quemado en el fuego, y se le cayeron las correas de las manos.
And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.
15 Encontró una quijada fresca de asno, extendió la mano, la tomó y golpeó con ella a mil hombres.
And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.
16 Sansón dijo: “Con la quijada de un asno, montones y montones; con la quijada de un asno he golpeado a mil hombres”.
And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.
17 Cuando terminó de hablar, arrojó la quijada de su mano; y aquel lugar se llamó Ramath Lehi.
And having said these words, he let the mouth-bone go out of his hand; so that place was named Ramath-lehi.
18 Tenía mucha sed, e invocó a Yahvé y dijo: “Tú has dado esta gran liberación por mano de tu siervo; ¿y ahora moriré de sed y caeré en manos de los incircuncisos?”
After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.
19 Pero Dios partió el hueco que hay en Lehi, y salió agua de él. Cuando hubo bebido, su espíritu regresó, y revivió. Por eso su nombre fue llamado En Hakkore, que está en Lehi, hasta el día de hoy.
Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.
20 Juzgó a Israel durante veinte años en los días de los filisteos.
And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.
