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.
And it came to pass after some time, in the time of wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, Let me go in to my wife into the chamber; but her father would not suffer him to go in.
2 Baba yake akasema, “Nilidhani umemchukia, hivyo nikampatia rafiki yako. Dada yake mdogo ni mzuri kuliko yeye, Mchukue badala yake.”
And her father said, I verily thought that thou didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her be thine, I pray thee, instead of her.
3 Samsoni akawaambia, 'Wakati huu sitakuwa na hatia juu ya Wafilisti wakati nikiwaumiza.'
And Samson said to them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them evil.
4 Samsoni akaenda na kukamata mbweha mia tatu akawafunga pamoja kila jozi, mkia hadi mkia. Kisha akachukua taa na kuzifunga katikati ya kila mkia.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put one torch between two tails in the midst;
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.
And he set the torches on fire, and let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both shocks and standing corn, as also olive-yards.
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 said the Philistines, Who hath done this! And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Thimnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 Samsoni akawaambia, “Ikiwa ndivyo mnavyofanya, nitalipiza kisasi juu yenu, na baada ya hayo, nitaacha.”
And Samson said unto them, Since ye will do the like of this, I will surely be avenged on you, and after that will I cease.
8 Kisha akawakata vipande vipande, paja na mguu, kwa kuwauwa sana. Kisha akashuka chini akaishi katika pango katika mwamba wa Etamu.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and tarried in the cleft of the rock 'Etam.
9 Ndipo Wafilisti wakaja, wakajitahidi kupigana vita huko Yuda, wakaanzisha jeshi lao huko Lehi.
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lechi.
10 Watu wa Yuda wakasema, “Kwa nini mmekuja kutupiga?” Wakasema, “Tunashambulia ili tuweze kumkamata Samsoni, na tumtendee kama alivyotutendea.”
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath 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.”
Thereupon went three thousand men of Judah down to the cleft of the rock 'Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? and what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12 Wakamwambia Samsoni, “Tumeshuka kukufunga na kukutia mikononi mwa Wafilisti.” Samsoni akawaambia, “Niapieni kwamba hamtaniua ninyi wenyewe.”
And they said unto him, To bind thee are we come down, to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not assail 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.
And they said unto him, thus, No; for we will [only] bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but we will in no-wise kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, 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 was come unto Lechi, the Philistines shouted against him; but the Spirit of the Lord came suddenly over him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax threads that are burnt with fire, and his bands melted from off his hands.
15 Samsoni alipata mfupa mbichi wa taya ya punda, naye akaichukua na kuua watu elfu kwa mfupa huo.
And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote therewith a thousand men.
16 Samsoni akasema, “Kwa taya ya punda, chungu juu ya chungu, na njaa ya punda nimewaua watu elfu.”
And Samson said, With a jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw-bone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
17 Samsoni alipomaliza kuzungumza, akatupa taya, na akaita mahali pale Ramath Lehi.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lechi.
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?”
And he became very thirsty, and he called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast granted through the hand of thy servant this great deliverance; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand 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 clave a hollow place that was at Lechi, and there came forth water out of it; and he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived; wherefore he called the name thereof 'En-hakkore, which is in Lechi unto this day.
20 Samsoni alikuwa mwamuzi wa Israeli katika siku za Wafilisti kwa miaka ishirini.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
