Jueces 16
1 Cuando Sansón llegó a Gaza, vio allí a una prostituta, en cuya casa entró.
He also went into Gaza. And there he saw a harlot woman, and he entered to her.
2 Se les dijo a los de Gaza: “Sansón ha venido a esta.” Por lo cual lo cercaron, y estuvieron en acecho toda aquella noche, a la puerta de la ciudad. Y toda la noche quedaron tranquilos, diciendo: “Cuando salga la luz del alba lo mataremos.”
And when the Philistines had heard of this, and it had become well known among them, that Samson had entered the city, they surrounded him, placing guards at the gate of the city. And there they were keeping watch all night in silence, so that, in the morning, they might kill him as he was going out.
3 Sansón permaneció acostado hasta la medianoche. A medianoche se levantó, y tomando las hojas de la puerta de la ciudad con las dos jambas, las arrancó juntamente con el cerrojo, y echándoselas a cuestas las llevó a la cumbre del monte que mira hacia Hebrón.
But Samson slept until the middle of the night, and rising up from there, he took both doors from the gate, with their posts and bars. And laying them upon his shoulders, he carried them to the top of the hill that looks toward Hebron.
4 Después de esto amó a una mujer que habitaba en el valle de Sorec y que se llamaba Dalila.
After these things, he loved a woman who was living in the valley of Sorek. And she was called Delilah.
5 Vinieron a ellas los príncipes de los filisteos y le dijeron: “Atráelo con halagos para ver en qué consiste su gran fuerza, y cómo podríamos prevalecer contra él para atarlo y sujetarlo, y te daremos cada uno mil cien siclos de plata.”
And the leaders of the Philistines went to her, and they said: “Deceive him, and learn from him wherein lies his great strength, and how we may be able to overcome him and to impose restraints on him. And if you will do this, each one of us will give you one thousand one hundred silver coins.”
6 Dijo Dalila a Sansón: “Dime, te ruego, en qué consiste tu gran fuerza y con qué se te debe atar para sujetarte.”
Therefore, Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me, I beg you, wherein lies your very great strength, and with what might you be bound, so that you could not break free?”
7 Sansón respondió: “Si me atan con siete cuerdas frescas, húmedas aún, quedaré sin fuerzas y vendré a ser como cualquier otro hombre.”
And Samson answered her, “If I will be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still damp, I will be weak like other men.”
8 Entonces los príncipes de los filisteos le llevaron siete cuerdas frescas, todavía húmedas, y lo ató con ellas.
And the princes of the Philistines brought to her seven cords, such as he had described. And she bound him with these.
9 Tenía ella en el aposento gentes en acecho, y le dijo: “Sansón, los filisteos sobre ti.” Mas él rompió las cuerdas, como se rompe un hilo de estopa cuando siente el fuego; de manera que no se descubrió (el secreto de) su fuerza.
And so, those hiding in ambush with her, in the bedroom, were expecting the end of the matter. And she cried out to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he broke the cords, as one would break a thread of flax, twisted for cutting and singed by fire. And so it was not known wherein lay his strength.
10 Entonces dijo Dalila a Sansón: “He aquí que te has burlado de mí, diciéndome mentiras. Ahora dime, te ruego, con qué podrás ser atado.”
And Delilah said to him: “Behold, you have mocked me, and you have spoken a falsehood. But at least now, tell me with what you may be bound.”
11 Él contestó: “Si me atan cien con sogas nuevas, no usadas todavía para otra cosa, quedaré sin fuerzas y vendré a ser como cualquier otro hombre.”
And he answered her, “If I will be bound with new cords, which have never been used, I will be weak and like other men.”
12 Tomó Dalila sogas nuevas, y habiéndolo atado con ellas, le dijo: “Sansón, los filisteos sobre ti”; y estaban efectivamente acechadores apostados en el aposento. Pero él rompió las sogas de sobre sus brazos como un hilo.
Again, Delilah tied him with these, and she cried out, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” For an ambush had been prepared in the bedroom. But he broke the bindings like the filaments of a web.
13 Luego dijo Dalila a Sansón: “Hasta ahora te has burlado de mí, diciéndome mentiras; dime al fin con qué podrás ser atado.” Y él le dijo: “Entreteje las siete trenzas de mi cabeza con una clavija de tejedor.”
And Delilah spoke to him again: “How long will you deceive me and tell me falsehoods? Reveal with what you ought to be bound.” And Samson responded to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with a loom, and if you tie these around a spike and fix it to the ground, I will be weak.”
14 Ella las aseguró con una clavija y le dijo: “Sansón, los filisteos sobre ti.” Pero él, despertando de su sueño, arrancó la clavija de tejedor juntamente con la urdimbre.
And when Delilah had done this, she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson.” And arising from sleep, he withdrew the spike with the hairs and the weaving.
15 Ella entonces le dijo: “¿Cómo puedes decir: Yo te amo, cuando tu corazón no está conmigo? Ya tres veces te has burlado de mí, y no me has manifestado en qué consiste tu gran fuerza.”
And Delilah said to him: “How can you say that you love me, when your soul is not with me? You have lied to me on three occasions, and you are not willing to reveal wherein lies your very great strength.”
16 Y como ella le molestase con sus palabras todos los días y le apremiase, perdió su alma la gana de vivir,
And when she had been very troublesome to him, and over many days had continually stayed nearby, giving him no time to rest, his soul was faint, and he was weary, even unto death.
17 y le descubrió todo su corazón, diciendo: Nunca ha pasado navaja por mi cabeza, pues soy nazareo de Dios desde el seno de mi madre. Si yo fuese rapado, perdería mi fuerza, me quedaría débil y vendría a ser como cualquier otro hombre.”
Then disclosing the truth of the matter, he said to her: “Iron has never been drawn across my head, for I am a Nazirite, that is, I have been consecrated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head will be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I will be faint and will be like other men.”
18 Dalila vio que le había descubierto todo su corazón, por lo cual envió a llamar a los príncipes de los filisteos, diciendo: “Subid aún esta vez, porque me ha descubierto todo su corazón.” Subieron los príncipes de los filisteos a la casa de ella, llevando el dinero en su mano.
Then, seeing that he had confessed to her his whole soul, she sent to the leaders of the Philistines and ordered: “Come up just once more. For now he has opened his heart to me.” And they went up, taking with them the money that they had promised.
19 Le hizo entonces dormir sobre sus rodillas; luego llamó al hombre para que le cortara las siete trenzas de la cabeza; entretanto, ella misma comenzó a sujetarlo, y su fuerza se apartó de él.
But she made him sleep upon her knees, and recline his head upon her bosom. And she called a barber, and he shaved his seven locks of hair. And she began to push him away, and to repel him from herself. For immediately his strength departed from him.
20 Y ella le dijo: “Sansón, los filisteos sobre ti.” Él, despertándose de su sueño, se dijo: “Saldré como las demás veces, y me desembarazaré”, pues no sabía que Yahvé se había apartado de él.
And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind, “I will break away and shake myself free, just as I did before.” For he did not know that the Lord had withdrawn from him.
21 Los filisteos, después de haberlo prendido, le sacaron los ojos, y lo llevaron a Gaza, donde lo sujetaron con doble cadena de bronce; y en la cárcel tuvo que dar vueltas a la muela.
And when the Philistines had seized him, they immediately plucked out his eyes. And they led him, bound in chains, to Gaza. And enclosing him in a prison, they made him work a millstone.
22 Mas el cabello de su cabeza comenzó a crecer después de haber sido rapado.
And now his hair began to grow back.
23 Los príncipes de los filisteos se reunieron para ofrecer un gran sacrificio a Dagón, su dios, y celebrar fiesta; pues decían: “Nuestro dios ha entregado en nuestras manos a Sansón, nuestro enemigo.”
And the leaders of the Philistines convened as one, so that they might offer great sacrifices to Dagon, their god. And they feasted, saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy, Samson, into our hands.”
24 También el pueblo, al verle, alabó a su dios, diciendo: “Nuestro dios ha entregado en nuestras manos a nuestro enemigo, que asolaba nuestro país, matando a nuestra gente.”
Then, too, the people, seeing this, praised their god, and they said the same, “Our god has delivered our adversary into our hands: the one who destroyed our land and who killed very many.”
25 Y en la alegría de su corazón dijeron: “Llamad a Sansón, para que nos divierta.” Llamaron a Sansón de la cárcel y tuvo que divertirlos. Pero Sansón, al cual tenían colocado entre las columnas,
And rejoicing in their celebration, having now taken food, they instructed that Samson be called, and that he be mocked before them. And having been brought from prison, he was mocked before them. And they caused him to stand between two pillars.
26 dijo al muchacho que le tenía de la mano: “Déjame tocar las columnas sobre las cuales se sustenta la casa, para apoyarme sobre ellas.”
And he said to the boy who was guiding his steps, “Permit me to touch the pillars, which support the entire house, and to lean against them, so that I may rest a little.”
27 Ahora bien, la casa estaba llena de hombres y mujeres; también todos los príncipes de los filisteos estaban allí, y sobre las azoteas había unos tres mil hombres y mujeres que miraban a Sansón que los divertía.
Now the house was full of men and women. And all the leaders of the Philistines were there, as well as about three thousand persons, of both sexes, on the roof and in the upper level of the house, who were watching Samson being mocked.
28 Entonces Sansón invocó a Yahvé, y dijo: “Señor, Yahvé, acuérdate de mí, te ruego, y dame fuerza solamente esta vez, para que de una vez me vengue de los filisteos por mis dos ojos.”
Then, calling upon the Lord, he said, “O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, so that I may avenge myself against my enemies, and so that I may receive one vengeance for the deprivation of my two eyes.”
29 Y agarró Sansón las dos columnas de en medio, sobre las cuales estribaba la casa; y apoyándose sobre ellas, sobre la una con su mano derecha, y sobre la otra con la izquierda,
And taking hold of both the pillars, on which the house rested, and holding one with his right hand and the other with his left,
30 dijo: “Muera yo con los filisteos”, y dio tan fuertemente (contra las columnas) que la casa cayó sobre los príncipes de los filisteos y sobre todo el pueblo que allí estaba reunido, de modo que los que mató muriendo, fueron más numerosos que los que había muerto en vida.
he said, “May my life die with the Philistines.” And when he had shaken the pillars strongly, the house fell upon all the leaders, and the rest of the multitude who were there. And he killed many more in his death than he had killed before in his life.
31 Sus hermanos y toda la casa de su padre bajaron, y levantándolo se lo llevaron. Lo sepultaron entre Saraá y Estaol, en la sepultura de Manué, su padre. Fue juez de Israel por espacio de veinte años.
Then his brothers and all his relatives, going down, took his body, and they buried it between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying place of his father, Manoah. And he judged Israel for twenty years.
