Judges 15

1 Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

1 过了些日子，在割麦的时候，参孙带着一只山羊羔去探望他妻子。他说：“我要进内室见我妻子。”他岳父却不让他进去，

2 “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

2 并对他说：“我以为你非常恨她，所以我把她改嫁给你的伴郎了。她妹子不是比她更美吗？你可以娶来代替她。”

3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”

3 参孙说：“这次我要加害非利士人，可不能怪我了。”

4 Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

4 于是，他出去捉了三百只狐狸，把它们的尾巴一对一对绑起来，将火把绑在两条尾巴中间，

5 Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

5 然后点燃火把，把狐狸放进非利士人的麦田里，将割好的麦捆和未割的麦子、葡萄园和橄榄园都烧毁了。

6 “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

6 非利士人问：“这是谁干的？”有人回答说：“是亭拿人的女婿参孙干的，因为他岳父把他的妻子嫁给了他的伴郎。”非利士人就去放火烧死了参孙的妻子和岳父。

7 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

7 参孙说：“你们既然这样做，我不向你们报仇誓不罢休。”

8 And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

8 参孙大肆击杀他们，杀死了很多人。事后，他下到以坦，住在那里的岩洞里。

9 Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

9 非利士人进犯犹大，在利希一带扎营。

10 “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”

10 犹大人问他们：“你们为什么来攻打我们？”非利士人回答说：“我们来捉拿参孙，向他以报还报。”

11 In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

11 于是，有三千犹大人去以坦的岩洞找参孙，对他说：“难道你不知道非利士人是我们的统治者吗？你为什么连累我们？”参孙回答说：“我只是以牙还牙。”

12 But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”

12 犹大人说：“我们来是要捉拿你，把你交给非利士人。”参孙说：“你们要起誓不会亲手杀我。”

13 “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

13 他们说：“我们不会杀你，只将你绑起来交给非利士人。”于是，他们用两根新绳子把参孙捆绑起来带出岩洞。

14 When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

14 参孙来到利希，非利士人就呐喊着迎了上去。耶和华的灵突然降在参孙身上，绑在他手臂上的绳子就像被火烧的麻线一样脱落下来。

15 He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.

15 他看到一块还没有干的驴腮骨，就捡起来用它杀了一千个非利士人。

16 Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”

16 参孙说： “用这驴腮骨，我杀人成堆； 用这驴腮骨，我杀死千人。”

17 And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

17 说完，他扔掉了手中的驴腮骨。因此，那地方叫拉末·利希 。

18 And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

18 参孙觉得非常口渴，便向耶和华呼求说：“你既然借着仆人的手大败敌人，难道你会让我渴死、落在这些未受割礼的人手中吗？”

19 So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

19 于是，上帝使利希的一处洼地裂开，涌出水来。参孙喝后恢复了精神。因此，那水泉叫隐·哈歌利 。那水泉今天还在利希。

20 And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

20 在非利士人统治期间，参孙做以色列的士师二十年。