¹ Léta desátého, desátého měsíce, dvanáctého dne téhož měsíce, stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

² Synu člověčí, obrať tvář svou proti Faraonovi králi Egyptskému, a prorokuj proti němu i proti všemu Egyptu.

³ Mluv a rci: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já proti tobě jsem, ó Faraone králi Egyptský, draku veliký, kterýž ležíš u prostřed řek svých, ješto říkáš: Já mám řeku svou, já zajisté jsem ji přivedl sobě.

⁴ Protož dám udici do čelistí tvých, a učiním, že zváznou ryby řek tvých na tvých šupinách; i vyvleku tě z prostředku řek tvých,i všecky ryby řek tvých na šupinách tvých zvázlé.

⁵ A nechám tě na poušti, tebe i všech ryb řek tvých. Na svrchku pole padneš, nebudeš sebrán ani shromážděn; šelmám zemským i ptactvu nebeskému dám tě k sežrání.

⁶ I zvědí všickni obyvatelé Egyptští, že já jsem Hospodin, proto že jste holí třtinovou domu Izraelskému.

⁷ Když se chytají tebe rukou, lámeš se, a roztínáš jim všecko rameno; a když se na tě zpodpírají, ztroskotána býváš, ačkoli nastavuješ jim všech bedr.

⁸ Protož takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já přivedu na tě meč, a vypléním z tebe lidi i hovada.

⁹ I bude země Egyptská pustinou a pouští, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin, proto že říkal: Řeka má jest, já zajisté jsem ji přivedl.

¹⁰ Protož aj, já budu proti tobě i proti řece tvé, a obrátím zemi Egyptskou v pustiny, v poušť přehroznou od věže Sevéne až do pomezí Mouřenínského.

¹¹ Nepůjdeť přes ni noha člověka, ani noha dobytčete půjde přes ni, a nebude v ní bydleno za čtyřidceti let.

¹² A tak uvedu zemi Egyptskou v pustinu nad jiné země pusté, a města její nad jiná města zpuštěná pustá budou za čtyřidceti let, když rozptýlím Egyptské mezi národy, a rozženu je do rozličných zemí.

¹³ A však takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Po skonání čtyřidceti let shromáždím Egyptské z národů, kamž rozptýleni budou.

¹⁴ A přivedu zase zajaté Egyptské, a uvedu je zase do země Patros, do země přebývání jejich, i budou tam královstvím sníženým.

¹⁵ Mimo jiná království bude sníženější, aniž se bude vynášeti více nad jiné národy; zmenším je zajisté, aby nepanovali nad národy.

¹⁶ I nebude více domu Izraelskému doufáním, kteréž by na pamět přivodilo nepravost, když by se obraceli za nimi; nebo zvědí, že já jsem Panovník Hospodin.

¹⁷ Potom bylo dvadcátého sedmého léta, prvního měsíce, prvního dne, že se stalo slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

¹⁸ Synu člověčí, Nabuchodonozor král Babylonský podrobil vojsko své v službu velikou proti Týru. Každá hlava oblezla, a každé rameno odříno jest, mzdy pak nemá, on ani vojsko jeho, z Týru za tu službu, kterouž sloužili proti němu.

¹⁹ Z té příčiny takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já dávám Nabuchodonozorovi králi Babylonskému zemi Egyptskou, aby pobral zboží její, a rozebral loupeže její, i rozchvátal kořisti její, aby mělo mzdu vojsko jeho.

²⁰ Za práci jejich, kterouž mi sloužili, dám jim zemi Egyptskou, proto že mně pracovali, praví Panovník Hospodin.

²¹ V ten den rozkáži vypučiti se rohu domu Izraelského. Tobě též způsobím, že otevřeš ústa u prostřed nich, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin.

¹ Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

² [It was told] the Gazites, saying, "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, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

³ Samson 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.

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 string of tow 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 with which 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 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.

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 web."

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 web.

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 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that 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 brass; 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 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."

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 It 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;

²⁶ and 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."

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 therein. 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.