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.
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 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”.
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 Sansón les dijo: “Esta vez seré irreprochable ante los filisteos cuando les haga daño”.
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 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.
And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the 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.
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 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 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 os comportáis así, ciertamente me vengaré de vosotros, y después cesaré”.
But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
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 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 los filisteos subieron, acamparon en Judá y se extendieron en 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 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 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 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”.
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 Le dijeron: “Hemos bajado para atarte y entregarte en manos de los filisteos”. Sansón les dijo: “Júrenme que no me atacarán ustedes mismos”.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Encontró una quijada fresca de asno, extendió la mano, la tomó y golpeó con ella a mil hombres.
And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
16 Sansón dijo: “Con la quijada de un asno, montones y montones; con la quijada de un asno he golpeado 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 terminó de hablar, arrojó la quijada de su mano; y aquel lugar se llamó Ramath Lehi.
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 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?”
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 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 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 Juzgó a Israel durante veinte años en los días de los filisteos.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
