1Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
1參孫在迦薩參孫往迦薩去，在那裡看見一個妓女，就進去與她親近。
2The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will kill him.”
2有人告訴迦薩人說：“參孫到這裡來了。”他們就把他圍住，整夜在城門口埋伏著，整夜默不作聲，心裡說：“等到早晨天亮，我們才殺他。”
3Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
3參孫睡到半夜，就在半夜起來，抓緊城門的門扇和兩邊門柱，把它們與門閂一起拔起來，放在自己的肩頭上，扛到希伯崙對面的山頂去。
4It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
4參孫和大利拉後來參孫在梭烈谷又愛上了一個婦人，名叫大利拉。
5The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
5非利士人的領袖上到婦人那裡去，對她說：“請你引誘他，看看他因甚麼緣故有這樣大的力氣，我們用甚麼方法才能勝過他，把他捆綁，好制伏他；我們每人就給你十二公斤銀子。”
6Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
6大利拉對參孫說：“求你告訴我，你因甚麼緣故有這樣大的力氣，要用甚麼方法才能捆綁你，好把你制伏。”
7Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
7參孫對她說：“如果人用七條未乾的青繩子捆綁我，我就會軟弱無力，像平常人一樣。”
8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
8於是非利士人的領袖把七條未乾的青繩子，帶上來給那婦人，她就用那些繩子把參孫捆綁起來。
9Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
9有人埋伏在她的內室裡等候著；她對參孫說：“參孫哪，非利士人上來捉你了！”參孫就掙斷繩子，像麻線被火燒斷一樣。這樣，他力氣的由來，還是沒有人知道。
10Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.”
10大利拉對參孫說：“你作弄我，向我說謊；現在求你告訴我，用甚麼東西才能把你捆綁。”
11He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
11參孫對她說：“如果人用從未使用過的新繩子把我緊緊地捆綁起來，我就軟弱無力，像平常人一樣。”
12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
12於是大利拉把新繩子拿了來，把參孫捆綁了，對他說：“參孫哪，非利士人上來捉你了！”當時有人埋伏在她的內室裡等候著。參孫把繩子從手臂上掙斷下來，像掙斷一根線一樣。
13Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.”
13大利拉對參孫說：“到現在你還是作弄我，向我說謊；求你告訴我，人怎樣才能捆綁你。”參孫對她說：“如果你把我頭上的七條髮辮與織布機上的緯線編織在一起就可以了。”
14She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
14於是大利拉把他的髮辮與織布機上的緯線同織在一起，再用木橛釘緊，對參孫說：“參孫哪，非利士人上來捉你了！”參孫從睡夢中醒來，竟把織布機上的木橛，和緯線都拔了出來。
15She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
15大利拉對參孫說：“你既然對我不真心，你怎能說：‘我愛你’？你這三次作弄我，沒有告訴我你這麼大的力氣是哪裡來的。”
16It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.
16大利拉天天用話逼他，催他，以致他的心煩得要死。
17He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
17參孫就把他心中的一切告訴了她，對她說：“向來沒有人用剃刀剃過我的頭，因為我自出母胎就歸 神作拿細耳人，如果人剃去我的頭髮，我的力氣就離開了我，我就軟弱無力，像所有人一樣。”
18When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.
18大利拉見參孫把心中的一切都告訴了她，就派人去請非利士人的領袖來，說：“這一次你們上來吧！因為他已經把心中的一切都告訴了我。”於是非利士人的領袖上到婦人那裡，手裡帶著銀子上去。
19She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
19大利拉使參孫睡在自己的膝上，又叫了一個人來，把參孫頭上的七條髮辮都剃去；大利拉就克制了他，因他的力氣離開了他。
20She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
20大利拉說：“參孫哪，非利士人上來捉你了！”參孫從睡夢中醒來，心裡說：“我要像前幾次一樣掙扎出去，必能脫身。”但他不知道耶和華已經離開他了。
21The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
21非利士人把他捉住，剜去了他的眼睛，帶他下到迦薩，用銅鍊捆綁著他，他就在監牢裡推磨。
22However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
22但是他的頭髮被剃去以後，又開始生長起來了。
23The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
23參孫之報復與死亡非利士人的領袖聚集起來，要給他們的神大袞獻大祭，並且歡樂慶祝；他們說：“我們的神把我們的仇敵參孫交在我們手中了。”
24When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”
24眾人看見了參孫，就讚美他們的神，說：“我們的神把我們的仇敵，就是那毀壞我們的地，又殺死我們很多人的，交在我們手中了。”
25It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
25他們心裡正在高興的時候，就說：“叫參孫來，給我們耍耍把戲。”於是有人把參孫從監牢裡叫出來；參孫就在他們面前耍把戲，他們又把他放在兩根柱子中間。
26and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
26參孫對拉著他手的童子說：“請你讓我摸摸支撐著這廟宇的柱子，我要在柱子上靠一靠。”
27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
27那時房子裡滿了男男女女，非利士人的領袖也在那裡；在房子的平頂上約有三千男女，都在觀看參孫耍把戲。
28Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
28參孫呼求耶和華，說：“主耶和華啊，求你記念我； 神啊，求你加強我這一次的力量，只這一次罷了，使我盡一次在非利士人身上報那剜我雙眼的仇！”
29Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
29參孫就抱住那支撐著房子中間的兩根柱子，右手抱一根，左手抱一根。
30Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
30然後參孫說：“讓我與非利士人同歸於盡吧！”於是盡力屈身，房子就倒塌，壓在眾領袖和房子裡所有的人身上。這樣，參孫死的時候殺死的人，比他活著的時候殺死的人還多。
31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
31參孫的眾兄弟和他父親的全家都下來，收殮他的屍體，把他抬上去，埋葬在瑣拉和以實陶之間，在他父親瑪挪亞的墳墓裡。參孫治理了以色列人二十年。