Waamuzi 15
1 Baada ya siku kadhaa, wakati wa mavuno ya ngano, Samsoni akachukua mbuzi mdogo akaenda kumtembelea mkewe. Akajiambia mwenyewe, “Nitaenda kwenye chumba cha mke wangu.” Lakini baba yake hakumruhusu aingie.
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father would not allow him to go in.
2 Baba yake akasema, “Nilidhani umemchukia, hivyo nikampatia rafiki yako. Dada yake mdogo ni mzuri kuliko yeye, Mchukue badala yake.”
Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
3 Samsoni akawaambia, 'Wakati huu sitakuwa na hatia juu ya Wafilisti wakati nikiwaumiza.'
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
4 Samsoni akaenda na kukamata mbweha mia tatu akawafunga pamoja kila jozi, mkia hadi mkia. Kisha akachukua taa na kuzifunga katikati ya kila mkia.
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
5 Alipokwisha kuviwasha moto vienge, akawaachia mbweha katika nafaka za Wafilisti zilizosimama, nao wakawasha moto nafaka zote zilizopandwa, na nafaka iliyosimama shambani, pamoja na mashamba ya mizabibu na mizeituni.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
6 Wafilisti waliuliza, “Ni nani aliyefanya hili?” Wakaambiwa, “Samsoni, mkwe wa Mtimna alifanya hivyo kwa sababu Mtimna alimchukua mke wa Samsoni akampa rafiki yake.” Basi Wafilisti wakamwendea wakamchoma kwa moto yeye na baba yake.
Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
7 Samsoni akawaambia, “Ikiwa ndivyo mnavyofanya, nitalipiza kisasi juu yenu, na baada ya hayo, nitaacha.”
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
8 Kisha akawakata vipande vipande, paja na mguu, kwa kuwauwa sana. Kisha akashuka chini akaishi katika pango katika mwamba wa Etamu.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
9 Ndipo Wafilisti wakaja, wakajitahidi kupigana vita huko Yuda, wakaanzisha jeshi lao huko Lehi.
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Watu wa Yuda wakasema, “Kwa nini mmekuja kutupiga?” Wakasema, “Tunashambulia ili tuweze kumkamata Samsoni, na tumtendee kama alivyotutendea.”
The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
11 Kisha watu elfu tatu wa Yuda wakashuka hata kwenye pango la Eatamu, wakamwambia Samsoni, “Je, hujui kwamba Wafilisti hutawala juu yetu? Je! umetutendea nini?” Samsoni akawaambia, “Kwa kadili walivyonitendea mimi, vivyo hivyo nimewatendea wao.”
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Do not you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12 Wakamwambia Samsoni, “Tumeshuka kukufunga na kukutia mikononi mwa Wafilisti.” Samsoni akawaambia, “Niapieni kwamba hamtaniua ninyi wenyewe.”
They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
13 Wakamwambia, “La, tutakufunga tu kwa kamba na kukupeleka kwao. Tunakuahidi sisi hatutakuua.” Kisha wakamfunga na kamba mbili mpya na kumleta kutoka kwenye mwamba.
They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 Alipofika Lehi, Wafilisti walipiga kelele walipokutana naye. Kisha Roho wa Bwana akaja juu yake kwa nguvu. Kamba zilizokuwa juu ya mikono yake zikawa kama kitambaa cha kuteketezwa, na zikaanguka mikononi mwake.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Samsoni alipata mfupa mbichi wa taya ya punda, naye akaichukua na kuua watu elfu kwa mfupa huo.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Samsoni akasema, “Kwa taya ya punda, chungu juu ya chungu, na njaa ya punda nimewaua watu elfu.”
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
17 Samsoni alipomaliza kuzungumza, akatupa taya, na akaita mahali pale Ramath Lehi.
When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Samsoni alikuwa na kiu sana akamwita Bwana na kusema, “Umempa mtumishi wako ushindi mkubwa. Lakini sasa nitakufa kwa kiu na kuanguka mikononi mwa wale wasiootahiriwa?”
He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19 Na Mungu akapafungua mahali pa shimo palipo katika Lehi, na maji yakatoka. Alipokunywa, nguvu zake zikarejea na akahuishwa. Kwa hiyo aliita jina la mahali hapo Enhakore, na ni huko Lehi hadi leo.
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
20 Samsoni alikuwa mwamuzi wa Israeli katika siku za Wafilisti kwa miaka ishirini.
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
