¹参孙在迦萨

¹And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her;

²有人告诉迦萨人说：“参孙到这里来了。”他们就把他围住，整夜在城门口埋伏着，整夜默不作声，心里说：“等到早晨天亮，我们才杀他。”

²[it is told] to the Gazathites, saying, `Samson hath come in hither;` and they go round and lay wait for him all the night at the gate of the city, and keep themselves silent all the night, saying, `Till the light of the morning — then we have slain him.`

³参孙睡到半夜，就在半夜起来，抓紧城门的门扇和两边门柱，把它们与门闩一起拔起来，放在自己的肩头上，扛到希伯仑对面的山顶去。

³And Samson lieth down till the middle of the night, and riseth in the middle of the night, and layeth hold on the doors of the gate of the city, and on the two side posts, and removeth them with the bar, and putteth on his shoulders, and taketh them up unto the top of the hill, which [is] on the front of Hebron.

⁴参孙和大利拉后来参孙在梭烈谷又爱上了一个妇人，名叫大利拉。

⁴And it cometh to pass afterwards that he loveth a woman in the valley of Sorek, and her name [is] Delilah,

⁵非利士人的领袖上到妇人那里去，对她说：“请你引诱他，看看他因什么缘故有这样大的力气，我们用什么方法才能胜过他，把他捆绑，好制伏他；我们每人就给你十二公斤银子。”

⁵and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, `Entice him, and see wherein his great power [is], and wherein we are able for him — and we have bound him to afflict him, and we — we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.`

⁶大利拉对参孙说：“求你告诉我，你因什么缘故有这样大的力气，要用什么方法才能捆绑你，好把你制伏。”

⁶And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power [is], and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.`

⁷参孙对她说：“如果人用七条未干的青绳子捆绑我，我就会软弱无力，像平常人一样。”

⁷And Samson saith unto her, `If they bind me with seven green withs which have not been dried, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.`

⁸于是非利士人的领袖把七条未干的青绳子，带上来给那妇人，她就用那些绳子把参孙捆绑起来。

⁸And the princes of the Philistines bring up to her seven green withs which have not been dried, and she bindeth him with them.

⁹有人埋伏在她的内室里等候着；她对参孙说：“参孙哪，非利士人上来捉你了！”参孙就挣断绳子，像麻线被火烧断一样。这样，他力气的由来，还是没有人知道。

⁹And the ambush is abiding with her in an inner chamber, and she saith unto him, `Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson;` and he breaketh the withs as a thread of tow is broken in its smelling fire, and his power hath not been known.

¹⁰大利拉对参孙说：“你作弄我，向我说谎；现在求你告诉我，用什么东西才能把你捆绑。”

¹⁰And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Lo, thou hast played upon me, and speakest unto me lies; now, declare, I pray thee, to me, wherewith thou art bound.`

¹¹参孙对她说：“如果人用从未使用过的新绳子把我紧紧地捆绑起来，我就软弱无力，像平常人一样。”

¹¹And he saith unto her, `If they certainly bind me with thick bands, new ones, by which work hath not been done, then I have been weak, and have been as one of the human race.`

¹²于是大利拉把新绳子拿了来，把参孙捆绑了，对他说：“参孙哪，非利士人上来捉你了！”当时有人埋伏在她的内室里等候着。参孙把绳子从手臂上挣断下来，像挣断一根线一样。

¹²And Delilah taketh thick bands, new ones, and bindeth him with them, and saith unto him, `Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson;` and the ambush is abiding in an inner chamber, and he breaketh them from off his arms as a thread.

¹³大利拉对参孙说：“到现在你还是作弄我，向我说谎；求你告诉我，人怎样才能捆绑你。”参孙对她说：“如果你把我头上的七条发辫与织布机上的纬线编织在一起就可以了。”

¹³And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Hitherto thou hast played upon me, and dost speak unto me lies; declare to me wherewith thou art bound.` And he saith unto her, `If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.`

¹⁴于是大利拉把他的发辫与织布机上的纬线同织在一起，再用木橛钉紧，对参孙说：“参孙哪，非利士人上来捉你了！”参孙从睡梦中醒来，竟把织布机上的木橛，和纬线都拔了出来。

¹⁴And she fixeth [it] with the pin, and saith unto him, `Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson;` and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web.

¹⁵大利拉对参孙说：“你既然对我不真心，你怎能说：‘我爱你’？你这三次作弄我，没有告诉我你这么大的力气是哪里来的。”

¹⁵And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power [is].`

¹⁶大利拉天天用话逼他，催他，以致他的心烦得要死。

¹⁶And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,

¹⁷参孙就把他心中的一切告诉了她，对她说：“向来没有人用剃刀剃过我的头，因为我自出母胎就归　神作拿细耳人，如果人剃去我的头发，我的力气就离开了我，我就软弱无力，像所有人一样。”

¹⁷that he declareth to her all his heart, and saith to her, `A razor hath not gone up on my head, for a Nazarite to God I [am] from the womb of my mother; if I have been shaven, then hath my power turned aside from me, and I have been weak, and have been as any of the human race.`

¹⁸大利拉见参孙把心中的一切都告诉了她，就派人去请非利士人的领袖来，说：“这一次你们上来吧！因为他已经把心中的一切都告诉了我。”于是非利士人的领袖上到妇人那里，手里带着银子上去。

¹⁸And Delilah seeth that he hath declared to her all his heart, and she sendeth and calleth for the princes of the Philistines, saying, `Come up this time, for he hath declared to me all his heart;` and the princes of the Philistines have come up unto her, and bring up the money in their hand.

¹⁹大利拉使参孙睡在自己的膝上，又叫了一个人来，把参孙头上的七条发辫都剃去；大利拉就克制了他，因他的力气离开了他。

¹⁹and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;

²⁰大利拉说：“参孙哪，非利士人上来捉你了！”参孙从睡梦中醒来，心里说：“我要像前几次一样挣扎出去，必能脱身。”但他不知道耶和华已经离开他了。

²⁰and she saith, `Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson;` and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `I go out as time by time, and shake myself;` and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him.

²¹非利士人把他捉住，剜去了他的眼睛，带他下到迦萨，用铜链捆绑着他，他就在监牢里推磨。

²¹And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.

²²但是他的头发被剃去以后，又开始生长起来了。

²²And the hair of his head beginneth to shoot up, when he hath been shaven,

²³参孙之报复与死亡非利士人的领袖聚集起来，要给他们的神大衮献大祭，并且欢乐庆祝；他们说：“我们的神把我们的仇敌参孙交在我们手中了。”

²³and the princes of the Philistines have been gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; and they say, `Our god hath given into our hand Samson our enemy.`

²⁴众人看见了参孙，就赞美他们的神，说：“我们的神把我们的仇敌，就是那毁坏我们的地，又杀死我们很多人的，交在我们手中了。”

²⁴And the people see him, and praise their god, for they said, `Our god hath given in our hand our enemy, and he who is laying waste our land, and who multiplied our wounded.`

²⁵他们心里正在高兴的时候，就说：“叫参孙来，给我们耍耍把戏。”于是有人把参孙从监牢里叫出来；参孙就在他们面前耍把戏，他们又把他放在两根柱子中间。

²⁵And it cometh to pass, when their heart [is] glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;` and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars.

²⁶参孙对拉着他手的童子说：“请你让我摸摸支撑着这庙宇的柱子，我要在柱子上靠一靠。”

²⁶And Samson saith unto the young man who is keeping hold on his hand, `Let me alone, and let me feel the pillars on which the house is established, and I lean upon them.`

²⁷那时房子里满了男男女女，非利士人的领袖也在那里；在房子的平顶上约有三千男女，都在观看参孙耍把戏。

²⁷And the house hath been full of men and of women, and thither [are] all the princes of the Philistines, and on the roof [are] about three thousand men and women, who are looking on the playing of Samson.

²⁸参孙呼求耶和华，说：“主耶和华啊，求你记念我；　神啊，求你加强我这一次的力量，只这一次罢了，使我尽一次在非利士人身上报那剜我双眼的仇！”

²⁸And Samson calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray Thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this time, O God; and I am avenged — vengeance at once — because of my two eyes, on the Philistines.`

²⁹参孙就抱住那支撑着房子中间的两根柱子，右手抱一根，左手抱一根。

²⁹And Samson turneth aside [to] the two middle pillars, on which the house is established, and on which it is supported, [to] the one with his right hand, and one with his left;

³⁰然后参孙说：“让我与非利士人同归于尽吧！”于是尽力屈身，房子就倒塌，压在众领袖和房子里所有的人身上。这样，参孙死的时候杀死的人，比他活着的时候杀死的人还多。

³⁰and Samson saith, `Let me die with the Philistines,` and he inclineth himself powerfully, and the house falleth on the princes, and on all the people who [are] in it, and the dead whom he hath put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life.

³¹参孙的众兄弟和他父亲的全家都下来，收殓他的尸体，把他抬上去，埋葬在琐拉和以实陶之间，在他父亲玛挪亚的坟墓里。参孙治理了以色列人二十年。

³¹And his brethren come down, and all the house of his father, and lift him up, and bring him up, and bury him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying-place of Manoah his father; and he hath judged Israel twenty years.