< Judges 15 >

1 But within a while after, in the time of wheate haruest, Samson visited his wife with a kid, saying, I wil go in to my wife into the chamber: but her father would not suffer him to goe in.
過了些日子,到割麥子的時候,參孫帶着一隻山羊羔去看他的妻,說:「我要進內室見我的妻。」他岳父不容他進去,
2 And her father sayde, I thought that thou hadst hated her: therefore gaue I her to thy companion. Is not her yonger sister fayrer then shee? take her, I pray thee, in stead of the other.
說:「我估定你是極其恨她,因此我將她給了你的陪伴。她的妹子不是比她還美麗嗎?你可以娶來代替她吧!」
3 Then Samson saide vnto them, Nowe am I more blamelesse then the Philistims: therefore will I doe them displeasure.
參孫說:「這回我加害於非利士人不算有罪。」
4 And Samson went out, and tooke three hundreth foxes, and tooke firebrands, and turned them taile to taile, and put a firebrand in ye middes betweene two tailes.
於是參孫去捉了三百隻狐狸,將狐狸尾巴一對一對地捆上,將火把捆在兩條尾巴中間,
5 And when he had set the brandes on fire, he sent them out into the standing corne of the Philistims, and burnt vp both the rickes and the standing corne with the vineyardes and oliues.
點着火把,就放狐狸進入非利士人站着的禾稼,將堆集的禾捆和未割的禾稼,並橄欖園盡都燒了。
6 Then the Philistims sayde, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson the sonne in law of the Timnite, because hee had taken his wife, and giuen her to his companion. Then the Philistims came vp and burnt her and her father with fire.
非利士人說:「這事是誰做的呢?」有人說:「是亭拿人的女婿參孫,因為他岳父將他的妻給了他的陪伴。」於是非利士人上去,用火燒了婦人和她的父親。
7 And Samson saide vnto them, Though yee haue done this, yet wil I be auenged of you, and then I wil cease.
參孫對非利士人說:「你們既然這樣行,我必向你們報仇才肯罷休。」
8 So hee smote them hippe and thigh with a mightie plague: then hee went and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.
參孫就大大擊殺他們,連腿帶腰都砍斷了。他便下去,住在以坦磐的穴內。
9 Then the Philistims came vp, and pitched in Iudah, and were spred abroad in Lehi.
非利士人上去安營在猶大,布散在利希。
10 And the men of Iudah sayde, Why are yee come vp vnto vs? And they answered, To binde Samson are we come vp, and to do to him as hee hath done to vs.
猶大人說:「你們為何上來攻擊我們呢?」他們說:「我們上來是要捆綁參孫;他向我們怎樣行,我們也要向他怎樣行。」
11 Then three thousande men of Iudah went to the top of the rocke Etam, and sayde to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistims are rulers ouer vs? Wherefore then hast thou done thus vnto vs? And he answered them, As they did vnto me, so haue I done vnto them.
於是有三千猶大人下到以坦磐的穴內,對參孫說:「非利士人轄制我們,你不知道嗎?你向我們行的是甚麼事呢?」他回答說:「他們向我怎樣行,我也要向他們怎樣行。」
12 Againe they sayd vnto him, Wee are come to binde thee, and to deliuer thee into the hande of the Philistims. And Samson sayde vnto them, Sweare vnto me, that yee will not fall vpon me your selues.
猶大人對他說:「我們下來是要捆綁你,將你交在非利士人手中。」參孫說:「你們要向我起誓,應承你們自己不害死我。」
13 And they answered him, saying, No, but we will bynde thee and deliuer thee vnto their hande, but we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two newe cordes, and brought him from the rocke.
他們說:「我們斷不殺你,只要將你捆綁交在非利士人手中。」於是用兩條新繩捆綁參孫,將他從以坦磐帶上去。
14 When hee came to Lehi, the Philistims shouted against him, and the Spirite of the Lord came vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes, became as flaxe that was burnt with fire: for the bandes loosed from his handes.
參孫到了利希,非利士人都迎着喧嚷。耶和華的靈大大感動參孫,他臂上的繩就像火燒的麻一樣,他的綁繩都從他手上脫落下來。
15 And he found a new iawebone of an asse, and put forth his hand, and caught it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
他見一塊未乾的驢腮骨,就伸手拾起來,用以擊殺一千人。
16 Then Samson sayd, With the iaw of an asse are heapes vpon heapes: with the iawe of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.
參孫說: 我用驢腮骨殺人成堆, 用驢腮骨殺了一千人。
17 And when he had left speaking, hee cast away the iawebone out of his hande, and called that place, Ramath-Lehi.
說完這話,就把那腮骨從手裏拋出去了。那地便叫拉末‧利希。
18 And he was sore a thirst, and called on the Lord, and sayde, Thou hast giuen this great deliuerance into the hand of thy seruaunt: and nowe shall I dye for thirst, and fall into the handes of the vncircumcised?
參孫甚覺口渴,就求告耶和華說:「你既藉僕人的手施行這麼大的拯救,豈可任我渴死、落在未受割禮的人手中呢?」
19 Then God brake the cheeke tooth, that was in the iawe, and water came thereout: and when he had drunke, his Spirit came againe, and he was reuiued: wherefore the name therof is called, Enhakkore, which is in Lehi vnto this day.
上帝就使利希的窪處裂開,有水從其中湧出來。參孫喝了,精神復原;因此那泉名叫隱‧哈歌利,那泉直到今日還在利希。
20 And hee iudged Israel in the dayes of the Philistims twentie yeeres.
當非利士人轄制以色列人的時候,參孫作以色列的士師二十年。

< Judges 15 >