¹参孙火烧非利士人的禾稼

¹And it cometh to pass, after [some] days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, `I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;` and her father hath not permitted him to go in,

²她父亲说：“我以为你非常恨她，所以我把她给了你的一个同伴；她的妹妹不是比她更美丽吗？你可以娶来代替她啊。”

²and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister — the young one — better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.`

³参孙对他们说：“这次如果我加害非利士人，就可以不必负责了。”

³And Samson saith of them, `I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.`

⁴于是参孙去捉了三百只狐狸，又拿了火把来，把狐狸尾巴对尾巴缚在一起，又把一枝火把插在两条尾巴中间。

⁴And Samson goeth and catcheth three hundred foxes, and taketh torches, and turneth tail unto tail, and putteth a torch between the two tails, in the midst,

⁵他点着了火把，就放狐狸进入非利士人的禾田里，把堆积的禾捆，和未割的禾稼，以及橄榄园都烧了。

⁵and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth [them] out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burneth [it] from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard — olive-yard.

⁶非利士人问：“这是谁作的呢？”有人回答：“是亭拿人的女婿参孙作的，因为他岳父把他的妻子给了他的同伴。”于是非利士人上去，放火烧了那女子和她的父亲。

⁶And the Philistines say, `Who hath done this?` And they say, `Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;` and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.

⁷参孙对他们说：“你们既然这样行，我必在你们身上报仇，然后才肯罢休。”

⁷And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!`

⁸参孙击打他们，连腿带腰都砍断了，那是一场极大的杀戮；然后他下去，住在以坦磐石的穴中。

⁸And he smiteth them hip and thigh — a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

⁹参孙用驴腮骨击杀千人非利士人上去，在犹大安营，在利希散开。

⁹And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

¹⁰犹大人说：“你们为什么上来攻打我们呢？”他们说：“我们上来是要捆绑参孙，要报复他向我们所行的。”

¹⁰and the men of Judah say, `Why have ye come up against us?` and they say, `To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.`

¹¹于是有三千犹大人下到以坦磐石的穴中去，对参孙说：“非利士人统治我们，你不知道吗？你为什么向我们行这事呢？”参孙对他们说：“他们怎样待我，我也怎样待他们。”

¹¹And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, `Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what [is] this thou hast done to us?` And he saith to them, `As they did to me, so I did to them.`

¹²犹大人对他说：“我们下来要捆绑你，把你交在非利士人手里。”参孙对他们说：“你们要向我发誓，你们不亲自杀害我。”

¹²And they say to him, `To bind thee we have come down — to give thee into the hand of the Philistines.` And Samson saith to them, `Swear to me, lest ye fall upon me yourselves.`

¹³他们告诉他说：“我们不会杀害你，我们只要把你捆绑住，交在非利士人手里，我们决不杀死你。”于是他们用两条新绳子把参孙捆绑起来，从磐石的穴里把他带上来。

¹³And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand, and we certainly do not put thee to death;` and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.

¹⁴参孙来到利希，非利士人就吶喊着出来迎接他，耶和华的灵大大临到参孙身上，他臂上的绳子就像被火烧的麻一样，他的捆绑都从他的手上落下来。

¹⁴He hath come unto Lehi — and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him — and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which [are] on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

¹⁵他找着一块新鲜的驴腮骨，就伸手拾起来，击杀了一千人。

¹⁵and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it — a thousand men.

¹⁶参孙说：“我用驴腮骨杀人成堆；我用驴腮骨击杀了一千人。”

¹⁶And Samson saith, `With a jaw-bone of the ass — an ass upon asses — with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.`

¹⁷说完了，就把那腮骨从手里拋出去，因此那地方就叫拉末．利希（“拉末．利希”意即“腮骨的山”）。

¹⁷And it cometh to pass when he finisheth speaking, that he casteth away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and calleth that place Ramath-Lehi;

¹⁸参孙非常口渴，就呼求耶和华说：“你既然借着你仆人的手施行这么大的拯救，现在我怎可以渴死，落在未受割礼的人手中呢？”

¹⁸and he thirsteth exceedingly, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Thou — Thou hast given by the hand of Thy servant this great salvation; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.`

¹⁹于是　神在利希使一洼地裂开，就有水从那里涌出来；参孙喝了，就恢复精神，活力充足；因此那泉名叫隐．哈歌利（“隐．哈歌利”意即“呼求者之泉”），那泉直到今日还在利希。

¹⁹And God cleaveth the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinketh, and his spirit cometh back, and he reviveth; therefore hath [one] called its name `The fountain of him who is calling,` which [is] in Lehi unto this day.

²⁰在非利士人统治的日子，参孙治理以色列人二十年。

²⁰And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.