Књига о судијама 15
1 А после неколико дана, о пшеничној жетви, дође Самсон да походи жену своју донесавши јој јаре, и рече: Идем к жени својој у ложницу. Али му отац њен не даде да уђе.
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
2 Јер рече отац њен: Ја мишљах зацело да ти није по вољи, па је дадох другу твом; него млађа сестра њена није ли лепша од ње? Узми њу место оне.
Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her, instead."
3 А Самсон им рече: Ја нећу бити крив Филистејима кад им учиним зло.
Samson said to him, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."
4 И отишавши Самсон ухвати триста лисица, и узе луча, и свеза по две у репове, и метну по један луч међу два репа.
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.
5 Па запали лучеве, и пусти у летину филистејску, и попали летину пожњевену и непожњевену, и винограде и маслинике.
And when he had set fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
6 Тада Филистеји рекоше: Ко је то учинио? И одговорише: Самсон зет Тамнаћанинов, јер му узе жену и даде је другу његовом. Тада дођоше Филистеји и спалише огњем њу и оца њеног.
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 burnt her and her father's house with fire.
7 А Самсон им рече: Ако сте и учинили тако, опет ћу вам се осветити, па ћу се онда оканити.
Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease."
8 И поломи их љуто ногама по бедрима: Потом отиде и настани се у пећини од стене Итама
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Тада изиђоше Филистеји и стадоше у логор према Јуди, и раширише се до Лехије.
Then the Philistines went up, and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
10 А људи од Јуде рекоше: Што сте изашли на нас? И одговорише: Изашли смо да свежемо Самсона и да му учинимо како је он нама учинио.
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 Тада изиђе три хиљаде људи из Јуде к пећини у стени Итаму, и рекоше Самсону: Не знаш ли да Филистеји владају над нама? А он им рече: Како су они мени учинили тако ја учиних њима.
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not 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 have I done to them."
12 Они му рекоше: Дошли смо да те свежемо и предамо у руке Филистејима. А Самсон им рече: Закуните ми се да нећете ви уложити на ме.
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 fall on me yourselves."
13 Они му одговорише и рекоше: Нећемо; него ћемо те само свезати и предати у њихове руке, али те нећемо погубити. И свезаше га у два нова ужа и одведоше га из стене.
They spoke to him, saying, "No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 И кад он дође до Лехије, Филистеји га сретоше вичући од радости; а Дух Господњи сиђе на њ, и ужа на рукама његовим посташе као конци изгорели од ватре, и спадоше свезе с руку његових.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 И он нађе чељуст магарећу још сирову, и пруживши руку своју узе је, и поби њом хиљаду људи.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Потом рече Самсон: Чељушћу магарећом једну гомилу, две гомиле, чељушћу магарећом побих хиљаду људи.
Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."
17 А кад изрече, баци чељуст из руке своје, и назва оно место Рамат-Лехија.
It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 И беше жедан јако, те завапи ка Господу и рече: Ти си учинио руком слуге свог ово избављење велико; а сад хоћу ли умрети од жеђи, или ћу пасти у руке необрезанима?
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 for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"
19 Тада Бог расцепи стену у Лехији, и потече вода из ње, те се напи, и поврати му се дух и оживе. Зато се прозва онај извор Ен-Акоре, који је у Лехији до данашњег дана.
And God split the hollow place that is at 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 И би судија Израиљу за времена филистејског двадесет година.
He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
