¹Asi nguva duku yakati yapera, panguva yekukohwa gorosi, Samusoni akandoshanyira mukadzi wake, akabata mbudzana; akati, Ndinoda kupinda kumukadzi wangu mumba. Asi baba vake vakaramba kumutendera kupinda.

¹But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

²Baba vake vakati, Zvirokwazvo, ndakati wamuvenga kwazvo; saka ndakamupa shamwari yako. Ko munin'ina wake haamupfuuri nokunaka here? Mutore hake iye panzvimbo yake.

²And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

³Samusoni akati kwavari, Nguva ino handingavi nemhosva kuvaFirisitia, kana ndikavaitira zvakaipa.

³And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.

⁴Ipapo Samusoni akandobata makava ana mazana matatu, akatora mazhenje, akabatanidza miswe miviri-miviri, ndokuisa zhenje pakati pemiswe miviri.

⁴And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.

⁵Zvino akatungidza mazhenje, ndokuaregedza, akapinda muzviyo zvavaFirisitia zvakanga zvaunganidzwa nezvakanga zvigere kukohwiwa, neminda yemizambiringa neyemiorivhi.

⁵And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.

⁶Ipapo vaFirisitia vakati, Ndianiko waita izvozvo? Vakati, NdiSamusoni, mukwasha womuTimuna, nekuti wakatora mukadzi wake, akamupa shamwari yake. Zvino vaFirisitia vakakwira, vakamupisa iye nomukadzi nababa vake nomoto.

⁶Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

⁷Samusoni akati kwavari, Kana mukaita saizvozvo, zvirokwazvo ndichakutsivai, pashure ndigorega.

⁷And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

⁸Akavarova pazvidya nezviuno, akavauraya nokuuraya kukuru; akaburuka, akandogara pabako redombo reEtami.

⁸And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

⁹Zvino vaFirisitia vakakwira, vakandodzika matende avo paJudha, vakapararira muRehi.

⁹Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

¹⁰Varume vaJudha vakati, Makwirireiko kuzorwa nesu. Ivo vakati, Takwira kuzosunga Samusoni, timuitire sezvaakatiitira isu.

¹⁰And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

¹¹Ipapo varume vaJudha vakanga vane zviuru zvitatu vakaburukira kubako redombo reEtami, vakati kuna Samusoni, Hauzivi kuti vaFirisitia vabati vedu here? Chinyiko ichi chawatiitira? Akati kwavari, Sezvavakandiitira ini, ndizvo zvandakavaitirawo.

¹¹Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

¹²Vakati kwaari, Isu taburukira kuno kuzokusunga, kuti tikuise mumaoko avaFirisitia. Samusoni akati kwavari, Pikai kwandiri, kuti imwi hamungandivambi mumene.

¹²And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

¹³Vakataura naye, vakati, Kwete; asi tichakusunga, nokukuisa mumaoko avo; asi zvirokwazvo hatingakuurayi. Vakamusunga netambo mbiri itsva, vakakwira naye vachibva padombo.

¹³And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

¹⁴Zvino wakati achisvika Rehi, vaFirisitia vakamupurudzira. Ipapo Mweya waJehovha akauya pamusoro pake nesimba guru; tambo dzakanga dzakasunga maoko ake dzikafanana noruchinda rwakatsva nomoto, zvisungo zvake zvikanyauka pamaoko ake.

¹⁴When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

¹⁵Akawana rushaya rwembongoro, akatambanudza ruoko rwake, akarutora, ndokuuraya varume vana mazana ane gumi narwo.

¹⁵And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

¹⁶Ipapo Samusoni akati,Norushaya rwembongoro ndakauraya boka namapoka, Norushaya rwembongoro ndakauraya vana mazana ane gumi.

¹⁶And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

¹⁷Zvino wakati apedza kutaura, akakanda kure rushaya rwakanga ruri muruoko rwake nzvimbo iyo ikanzi Ramafirehi.

¹⁷And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.

¹⁸Ipapo akanzwa nyota kwazvo, akachema kuna Jehovha, akati, Matirwira kwazvo noruoko rwomuranda wenyu; zvino ndichafa nenyota, ndikawira mumaoko avasina kudzingiswa.

¹⁸And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

¹⁹Asi Mwari wakapamura mukaha paRehi, mvura ikabudapo; zvino wakati amwa, mweya wake ukadzokera maari, akaponazve; naizvozvo ipapo pakatumidzwa Enihakori, tsime riri paRehi kusvikira nhasi.

¹⁹But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.

²⁰Iye akatonga vaIsiraeri makore makumi maviri pamazuva avaFirisitia.

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