Jueces 15
1 Después de algún tiempo, sucedió que en la época de la cosecha del trigo, Sansón fue a visitar a su esposa con un cabrito y se decía: Me uniré a mi esposa en el aposento de dormir. Pero el padre de ella no lo dejó 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 Y dijo su padre: Realmente pensé que la aborrecías intensamente, así que yo la di a tu compañero. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Te ruego que ésta sea tuya en vez de ella.
And her father spoke, saying, I said that you did surely hate her, and I gave her to one of your friends: [is] not her younger sister better than she? let her be to you instead of her.
3 Entonces Sansón le respondió: ¡Esta vez no tendré culpa ante los filisteos si les haga daño!
And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.
4 Sansón fue y capturó 300 zorras. Tomó astillas de madera impregnadas de resina, las ató cola con cola y puso una astilla entre cola y cola.
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 Después prendió fuego a las astillas y soltó las zorras entre los sembrados de los filisteos. Quemó los manojos, la cosecha que estaba en pie e incluso las viñas y los olivares.
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 Y los filisteos preguntaron: ¿Quién hizo esto? Y les dijeron: Sansón, yerno del timnateo, porque éste tomó a su esposa y la dio a su compañero. Entonces los filisteos fueron y la quemaron a ella y a su padre.
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 Sansón les dijo: Por hacer esto, juro que no descansaré hasta que me vengue de ustedes.
And Sampson said to them, Though you may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.
8 Les hirió cadera y muslo con gran mortandad. Luego bajó y vivió en la hendidura de la peña de Etam.
And he struck them leg on thigh [with] a great overthrow; and went down and lived in a cave of the rock Etam.
9 Pero los filisteos subieron y acamparon en Judá, y se desplegaron por Lehi.
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.
10 Los varones de Judá les dijeron: ¿Por qué subieron contra nosotros? Y respondieron: Subimos para atrapar a Sansón a fin de hacerle lo mismo que nos hizo.
And the men of Juda said, Why are you 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 Entonces 3.000 hombres de Judá bajaron a la hendidura de la peña de Etam y dijeron a Sansón: ¿No sabes que los filisteos nos dominan? ¿Qué es esto que nos hiciste? Y él les contestó: Les hice como ellos me hicieron.
And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Know you not that the Philistines rule over us? and what [is] this [that] you have done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 Ellos le dijeron: Vinimos para atarte y entregarte en las manos de los filisteos. Sansón les dijo: ¡Júrenme que no me matarán ustedes mismos!
And they said to him, We are come down to bind you to deliver you into the hand of the Philistines: and Sampson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 Ellos le respondieron: No, solo te ataremos y te entregaremos en las manos de ellos, pero de seguro no te mataremos. Entonces lo ataron con dos cuerdas nuevas y le ordenaron salir de la peña.
And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand, and will by no means kill you: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.
14 Cuando llegó a Lehi, al verlo los filisteos gritaron. Entonces el Espíritu de Yavé vino poderosamente sobre él, de tal modo que las cuerdas que estaban en sus brazos fueron como lino quemado al fuego, y sus ataduras cayeron de sus manos.
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 Al hallar una quijada de asno aún fresca, extendió su mano, la tomó, y con ella mató a 1.000 hombres.
And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and struck with it a thousand men.
16 Entonces cantó Sansón: Con la quijada de un asno, Montones sobre montones; Con la quijada del asno, Maté a 1.000 varones.
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 struck a thousand men.
17 Aconteció que cuando acabó de hablar, lanzó con su mano la quijada, y llamó a aquel lugar Ramat-lehi.
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 Entonces tuvo mucha sed, y clamó a Yavé y dijo: Tú diste esta gran salvación por medio de tu esclavo, ¿y ahora moriré de sed y caeré en las manos de los incircuncisos?
And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, You have been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of your servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 Entonces ʼElohim abrió la hendidura que está en Lehi, y de allí salió agua. Y cuando bebió, recobró su fuerza y revivió, por lo cual la llamó En-hacoré, la cual está en Lehi hasta hoy.
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 En los días de los filisteos juzgó a Israel 20 años.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
