1 و َبَعْدَ فَتْرَةٍ، ذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ فِي أيّامِ الحَصادِ لِزِيارَةِ زَوجَتِهِ، وَأخَذَ مَعَهُ جِدْياً. وَقالَ: «أُرِيدُ أنْ أدخُلَ إلَى غُرفَةِ زَوجَتِي.» لَكِنَّ وَالِدَها لَمْ يَسْمَحْ لَهُ بِالدُّخُولِ.

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.

2 و َقالَ لَهُ: «حَسِبْتُكَ قَدْ تَخَلَّيتَ عَنْها، فَزَوَّجْتُها لِرَفِيقِكَ. ألَيسَتْ أُختُها الأصْغَرُ أجمَلَ مِنْها؟ فَتَزَوَّجْها.»

Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead.”

3 ف َقالَ لَهُ شَمْشُونُ: «لا لَوْمَ عَلَيَّ الآنَ إنْ آذَيتُ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ.»

Samson then said to them, “This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm.”

4 ف َذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ وَأمسَكَ بِثَلاثِ مِئَةِ ثَعلَبٍ. وَأخَذَ مَشاعِلَ وَرَبَطَ الثَّعالِبَ ذَنَباً بِذَنَبٍ، وَوَضَعَ مِشْعَلاً بَينَ كُلِّ ذَنَبَينِ مَربُوطَينِ.

Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails.

5 ث ُمَّ أشعَلَ النّارَ فِي المَشاعِلِ، وَأطلَقَ الثَّعالِبَ بَينَ زُرُوعِ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ، فَأحرَقَ كُلَّ شَيءٍ: الحُبُوبَ المَخزُونَةَ، وَالحُبُوبَ المَزرُوعَةَ، وَالكُرُومَ وَبَيّاراتِ الزَّيتُونِ.

When he had set fire to the torches, he released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves.

6 ف َقالَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ: «مَنْ فَعَلَ هَذا؟» فَقيلَ: «شَمْشُونُ، صِهْرُ التِّمْنِيِّ هُوَ الَّذِي فَعَلَ هَذا. لِأنَّ التِّمْنِيَّ أخَذَ زَوْجَةَ شَمْشُونَ وَأعطاها لِرَفِيقِهِ.» فَصَعِدَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ وَأحرَقُوها هَيَ وَأباها بِالنّارِ.

Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

7 ف َقالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «قَدْ فَعلْتُمْ هَذا العَمَلَ الرَّدِيءَ بِي، وَلِذا فَإنِّي أُقْسِمُ إنَّنِي سَأنتَقِمُ مِنْكُمْ، وَبَعْدَ ذَلِكَ سَأسْتَريحُ.»

Samson said to them, “Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit.”

8 ف َهاجَمَهُمْ بِشَراسَةٍ وَقَتَلَ كَثِيرِينَ مِنْهُمْ. ثُمَّ نَزَلَ وَسَكَنَ فِي كَهْفٍ فِي صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ.

He struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

9 ف َصَعِدَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ وَخَيَّمُوا فِي يَهُوذا، وَانْتَشَرُوا فِي لَحْيَ.

Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

10 ف َقالَ رِجالُ يَهُوذا لَهُمْ: «لِماذا جَئْتُمْ لِمُقاتَلَتِنا؟» فَقالَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ: «جِئْنا لِكَي نُقَيِّدَ شَمْشُونَ لِكَي نَفْعَلَ بِهِ كَما فَعَلَ بِنا.»

The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they said, “We have come up to bind Samson in order to do to him as he did to us.”

11 ف َنَزَلَ ثَلاثَةُ آلافِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ يَهُوذا إلَى صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ، وَقالُوا لِشَمْشُونَ: «ألا تَعرِفُ أنَّ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ يَحكُمُونَنا؟ فَما هَذا الَّذِي فَعَلْتَهُ بِنا؟» فَقالَ لَهُمْ: «كَما فَعَلُوا بِي فَعَلْتُ بِهِمْ.»

Then 3, 000 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?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

12 ف َقالُوا لَهُ: «لَقَدْ نَزَلْنا لِكَي نُقَيِّدَكَ وَنُسَلِّمَكَ إلَى الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ.» فَقالَ لَهُمْ شَمْشُونُ: «احلِفُوا لِي أنَّكُمْ لَنْ تُصيبوني بِأذَى.»

They said to him, “We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me.”

13 ف َقالُوا لَهُ: «لَنْ نُصيبَكَ بِأذَى، وَإنَّما سَنُقَيِّدُكَ وَنُسَلِّمُكَ إلَيْهِمْ، لَنْ نَقتُلَكَ.» فَقَيَّدُوهُ بِحَبلَينِ جَدِيدَينِ، وَأصعَدُوهُ مِنْ صَخْرَةِ عِيطَمَ.

So they said to him, “No, but we will bind you fast and give you into their hands; yet surely we will not kill you.” Then they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

14 و َجاءُوا إلَى لَحْيٍ. فَجاءَ الفِلِسْطِيُّونَ لِلِقائِهِ وَهُمْ يَهْتِفُونَ فَرَحاً. فَحَلَّ رُوحُ اللهِ عَلَى شَمْشُونَ بِقُوَّةٍ، فَصارَتِ الحِبالُ الَّتِي عَلَى ذِراعَيهِ كَخُيُوطِ الكِتّانِ المُحتَرِقِ، فَتَفَسَّخَتِ القُيُودُ عَلَى يَدَيهِ.

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds dropped from his hands.

15 ث ُمَّ وَجَدَ فَكَّ حِمارٍ طَرِيّاً، فَمَدَّ يَدَهُ وَأخَذَهُ، وَقَتَلَ بِهِ ألفَ رَجُلٍ.

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

16 ث ُمَّ قالَ شَمْشُونُ: «بِفَكِّ حِمارٍ، صَنَعْتُ كَوْمَةَ رِجالٍ، بَلْ كَوْمَتَينِ. بِفَكِّ حِمارٍ قَتَلْتُ ألفَ رَجُلٍ.»

Then Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have killed a thousand men.”

17 و َلَمّا أنهَى كَلامَهُ، رَمَى بِالفَكِّ بَعِيداً. وَسُمِّيَ ذَلِكَ المَكانُ رَمَتَ لَحْيٍ.

When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

18 و َعَطِشَ شَمْشُونُ، فَصَرَخَ إلَى اللهِ: «أنتَ نَصَرْتَ عَبْدَكَ هَذا الانتِصارَ العَظيمَ، فَهَلْ أمُوتُ الآنَ مِنَ العَطَشِ؟ وَأقَعُ فِي أيدِي الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ اللّامَختُونِينَ؟»

Then he became very thirsty, and he called to the Lord and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

19 ف َشَقَّ اللهُ المُنْخَفَضَ الّذي فِي لَحْيٍ، فَخَرَجَ ماءٌ مِنَ الأرْضِ. فَشَرِبَ شَمْشُونُ، وَعادَتْ إلَيهِ قُوَّتُهُ وَانتَعَشَ. فَسُمِّيَ النَّبْعُ عَينَ هَقُّورِي. وَهِيَ فِي لَحْيٍ إلَى يَومِنا هَذا.

But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

20 ف َقَضَى شَمْشُونُ لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ فِي أيّامِ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً.

So he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.