Judges 16

1 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

1 一天，参孙去迦萨，看见一个妓女，就与她亲近。

2 When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

2 迦萨人得知参孙来了，便包围那地方，整夜埋伏在城门口，没有动手，心想：“等天一亮，我们就杀掉他。”

3 But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

3 可是，参孙睡到半夜就起来，把城门的门扇连门框和门闩一同拆下，扛到希伯仑对面的山顶上。

4 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

4 后来，参孙在梭烈谷爱上一位名叫大利拉的女子。

5 The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

5 非利士人的首领就上去见这女子，对她说：“请你哄参孙说出他为何有这么大力气，我们怎样才能制服他，把他绑起来。事后，我们每人会给你一千一百块银子。”

6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

6 于是，大利拉问参孙：“求你告诉我，你为什么有这么大力气？用什么办法才能把你绑起来制服你？”

7 Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

7 参孙说：“如果他们用七根还没干的青绳子绑住我，我就会像普通人一样软弱。”

8 So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

8 非利士人的首领便把七根还没干的青绳子交给大利拉，她用那些绳子把参孙绑起来。

9 While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

9 有人已预先埋伏在她的内室，于是她喊道：“参孙，非利士人来捉你了！”但参孙挣断了绳子，就像挣断火烧过的麻线一样。因此，仍然没有人知道他为何力气过人。

10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

10 大利拉对参孙说：“你说谎捉弄我。现在请你告诉我，用什么方法才能绑住你？”

11 He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

11 参孙回答说：“如果他们用从未用过的新绳子绑住我，我就会像普通人一样软弱。”

12 So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

12 于是，大利拉让人埋伏在内室，她用七根新绳子绑住参孙，然后喊道：“参孙，非利士人来捉你了！”结果，参孙挣断了手臂上的绳子，就像挣断一根线一样。

13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”

13 大利拉对参孙说：“到现在你还是说谎捉弄我。请你告诉我，用什么方法才能绑住你？”参孙说：“你把我的七根发辫和织布机的线编在一起，用梭子扎紧，我就会像普通人一样软弱。”

14 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

14 于是，大利拉把他的发辫和织布机的线编在一起，用梭子扎紧，然后喊道：“参孙，非利士人来捉你了！”参孙醒来，挣脱了织布机的梭子和线。

15 “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

15 大利拉对参孙说：“你既然不跟我说真心话，还说什么爱我！你捉弄了我三次，没告诉我你为何力气过人。”

16 Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

16 大利拉天天在他跟前唠叨不停，以致他烦得要死，

17 Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

17 就把秘密告诉了她。他说：“我从不剃发，因为我一出生就献给上帝做拿细耳人了。如果剃掉我的头发，我就会失去力气，像普通人一样软弱。”

18 When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.

18 大利拉见他说出了心中的秘密，就派人去通知非利士人的首领，说：“你们再来一次吧，他已经把秘密告诉我了。”于是，他们带着银子去了。

19 And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.

19 大利拉哄参孙枕着她的腿睡觉，然后叫人来剃掉他的七根发辫，使他力气尽失，无力反抗。

20 Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

20 她喊道：“参孙，非利士人来捉你了！”参孙醒来，心想：“我要像前几次一样挣脱捆绑。”他却不知道耶和华已经离开他了。

21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

21 非利士人拿住他，剜了他的眼睛，把他带到迦萨，用铜链锁住他，让他在监牢里推磨。

22 However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

22 后来，他的头发又渐渐长出来了。

23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

23 非利士人的首领聚在一起向他们的神明大衮献大祭，欢呼说：“我们的神把仇敌参孙交在我们手中了。”

24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”

24 众人看见参孙，就赞美他们的神明，说：“我们的神把仇敌交在我们手中了，他曾毁坏我们的田地，杀死我们许多人。”

25 And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.

25 他们都兴高采烈，并喊道：“把参孙带来让我们消遣消遣。”于是，有人把参孙从监牢里提出来供他们消遣，他们让他站在两根柱子中间。

26 Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”

26 参孙对拉着他手的童仆说：“带我到支撑这庙宇的柱子那里，我想靠一靠。”

27 Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

27 那时，庙里挤满了男男女女，非利士人的首领们都在场，房顶上还有三千男女看参孙的热闹。

28 Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”

28 参孙呼求耶和华，说：“主耶和华啊，求你眷顾我！上帝啊，求你再赐给我一次力量，使我向非利士人报剜眼之仇。”

29 And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,

29 参孙就抱住庙宇中央的两根柱子，一手抱一根，

30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.

30 然后喊道：“我要跟非利士人同归于尽！”于是，他用尽全力推柱子，庙宇倒塌，压住里面的首领和民众。参孙死时杀的人比他活着时杀的还多。

31 Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

31 参孙的兄弟和家人取走他的尸体，葬在琐拉和以实陶之间他父亲玛挪亚的墓地里。参孙做以色列的士师二十年。