NDI-IKPE 15

1 O rue, mb͕e ubọchi ufọdu gasiri, na mb͕e obìbì ọka wheat, na Samson were nwa-ewu leta nwunye-ya; ọ si, Ka m'bakuru nwunyem n'ime-ulo. Ma nna nwunye-ya ekweghi ka ọ ba. 2 Nna-ya we si, Asirim n'ezie na i kpọrọ ya asì nke-uku; m'we nye ya nwoke-ibe-gi: nwa-nne-ya nke-ntà, ọ̀ dighi nma kari ya? biko, ka ọ nọchiri gi n'ọnọdu ya. 3 Samson we si ha, Otù ub͕ò a m'gābu onye ikpe nāmaghi kari ndi Filistia, ọ bu ezie na mu onwem nēme ha ihe ọjọ. 4 Samson we je nwude ọgu nkita-ọhia iri-na-ise, chiri ọwa, che ọdudù iru, tiye otù ọwa n'etiti ọdudù abua n'ab͕ata ha. 5 Ọ we muye ọku n'ọwa nile, zipu ha ga n'ọka guzoro eguzo nke ndi Filistia, we sure ma obo ọka ma ọka guzoro eguzo, ha na ubi-olive. 6 Ndi Filistia we si, Ònye meworo nka? Ha si, Samson, di nwa onye Timna, n'ihi na ọ narawo ya nwunye-ya, nye ya nwoke-ibe-ya. Ndi Filistia we rigo, kpọre ya na nna-ya n'ọku. 7 Samson we si ha, Ọ buru na unu eme otú a, aghaghm ibọrọ onwem ọ́bọ n'aru unu, ma emesia m'gāgha.

8 O we tib͕ue ha ntib͕u uku, ogwe-ukwu n'elu apata-ukwu: ọ we rida, nọdu nime nb͕awa nke nkume di elu, bú Itam.
9 Ndi Filistia we rigo, ma ulo-ikwū-ha nime Juda, b͕asa onwe-ha nime Lehi. 10 Ndikom Juda we si, N'ìhi gini ka unu rigotaworo megide ayi? Ha si, Ike Samson ab͕u ka ayi rigotaworo, ime ya dika o meworo ayi. 11 Nnù ndikom Juda asa na ọgu iri we ridarue nb͕awa nkume di elu, bú Itam, si Samson, Ì maghi na ndi Filistia bu ndi nāchi ayi? gini bu kwa nka i meworo ayi? Ọ si ha, Dika ha merem, otú a ka m'meworo ha. 12 Ha si ya, Ike gi ab͕u ka ayi ridataworo, inye gi n'aka ndi Filistia. Samson we si ha, Ṅuaranum iyi, ka unu we ghara idakwasim, unu onwe-unu. 13 Ha we gwa ya okwu, si, É-è; kama ayi gēkesi gi ab͕u ike, nye gi n'aka-ha: ma ayi agaghi-eme ka i nwua ma-ọli. Ha we chiri udọ̀ ọhu abua ke ya ab͕u, me ka o si na nkume ahu di elu rigota. 14 Mb͕e ya onwe-ya biaruru Lehi, ndi Filistia we tie nkpu n'izute ya: Mọ nke Jehova we dakwasi ya n'ike, udọ̀ abua nke di n'ogwe-aka-ya abua we di ka flax nke reworo n'ọku, ab͕u-ya nile we b͕azepu n'aka-ya abua. 15 O we huta ọkpukpu-àb͕à ọhu nke inyinya-ibu, setipu aka-ya, jide ya, were ya tib͕ue nnù ndikom abua na ọgu iri.

16 Samson we si,
Ọkpukpu - àb͕à inyinya - ibu ka m'jiworo, otù obo, obo abua,
Ọkpukpu - àb͕à inyinya - ibu ka m'jiworo tib͕u nnù ndikom abua na ọgu iri.
17 O rue, mb͕e o kwubìri okwu, na ọ tupuru ọkpukpu-àb͕à-anu ahu n'aka-ya; o we kpọ ebe ahu Remat-lehi. 18 Akpiri we kpọ ya nku nke-uku, o we kpọkue Jehova, si, Gi onwe-gi esiwo n'aka orù-gi nye nzọputa uku a: ma ub͕u a m'gānwu n'akpiri-ikpọ-nku, dabà n'aka nke ndia anēbìghi úgwù. 19 Chineke we b͕awa olùlù ahu nke di nime Lehi, miri we si nime ya puta; o we ṅua, mọ-ya we biaghachi, o we di ndu; n'ihi ya ọ kpọrọ aha-ya En-hakore, nke di na Lehi, rue ta. 20 Ọ we kpe Israel ikpe na mb͕e ndi Filistia orú arọ.

Judges 15

1 But 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.2 And 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.3 And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.4 And 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.5 And 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.6 Then 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.7 And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.10 And 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.11 Then 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.12 And 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.13 And 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.

14 When 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.15 And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

17 And 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.18 And 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.19 But 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.20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.