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.

¹And it came to pass after a time, in the days of the wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats. 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 didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her, I pray thee, be thine instead of her.

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

³And Samson said to them, This time I am blameless toward the Philistines, though I do them harm.

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 jackals, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between the two tails.

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

⁵And he set the torches on fire, and let [them] run into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, and the olive gardens.

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.

⁶And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

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

⁷And Samson said to them, If ye act thus, for a certainty I will avenge myself on you, and then 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 cliff Etam.

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

⁹And 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 has 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 cliff Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? And what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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

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

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

¹³And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but we certainly shall not put thee to death. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the cliff.

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 to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and the cords that were on his arms became as threads of flax that are burned with fire, and his bands loosed 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 slew with it a thousand men.

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

¹⁶And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, a heap, two heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I slain 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 ended speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place 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 very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given by the hand of thy servant this great deliverance, 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.

¹⁹And God clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

²⁰Iye akatonga vaIsiraeri makore makumi maviri pamazuva avaFirisitia.

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