1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her. 2 The 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." 3 Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with 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.

4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 The 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."

6 Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."

7 Samson 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."

8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9 Now 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 flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

10 Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound."

11 He 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."

12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then 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.

13 Delilah 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 fabric on the loom."

14 She 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 fabric.

15 She 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."

16 When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. 17 He 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."

18 When 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. 19 She 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. 20 She 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. 21 The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison. 22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

23 The lords of the Philistines gathered 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." 24 When 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."

25 When their hearts were merry, 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; 26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them." 27 Now 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. 28 Samson 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." 29 Samson 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. 30 Samson 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 in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

31 Then 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.

1 参孙往迦萨去， 在那里看见一个妓女， 就进去与她亲近。

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。"

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。

4 后来参孙在梭烈谷又爱上了一个妇人， 名叫大利拉。

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。"

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。"

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。"

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。

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。

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。"

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。"

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。

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。"

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。

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。"

16 大利拉天天用话逼他， 催他， 以致他的心烦得要死。

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。"

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。

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。

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。

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。

22 但是他的头发被剃去以后， 又开始生长起来了。

23 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。"

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。"

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。

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。"

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。

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！ "

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。

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。

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。