28.參孫求告耶和華說:「主耶和華啊,求你眷念我。 神啊,求你賜我這一次的力量,使我在非利士人身上報那剜我雙眼的仇。」
Then Samson prayed to the LORD, 「Sovereign LORD, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.」
29.參孫就抱住托房的那兩根柱子:左手抱一根,右手抱一根,
Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other,
30.說:「我情願與非利士人同死!」就盡力屈身,房子倒塌,壓住首領和房內的眾人。這樣,參孫死時所殺的人,比活著所殺的還多。
Samson said, 「Let me die with the Philistines!」 Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
31.參孫的弟兄和他父的全家都下去取他的屍首,擡上來葬在瑣拉和以實陶中間,在他父瑪挪亞的墳墓裏。參孫作以色列的士師二十年。
Then his brothers and his father’s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led[d]Israel twenty years.
Footnotes:
d. Judges 16:31 Traditionally judged