They sent me the same message four times, and each time I returned a similar response to them.
Judges 16:6 - Tree of Life Version So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me please, where does your great strength come from? How could you be bound to subdue you?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to subdue you. American Standard Version (1901) And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. Common English Bible So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what gives you such great strength and how you can be tied up and made weak.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me, I beg you, wherein lies your very great strength, and with what might you be bound, so that you could not break free?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is wherewith, if thou wert bound, thou couldst not break loose. |
They sent me the same message four times, and each time I returned a similar response to them.
Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.
The mouth of a seducing woman is a deep pit—into it will fall one with whom Adonai is angry.
A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.
With her persistent pleading she entices him, with smooth talk she seduces him.
The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.
Do not trust in a friend. Do not trust in a close companion. Guard the openings of your mouth from her who lies on your breast.
But she wept before him the seven days while their banquet lasted. So it was on the seventh day he told her, because she nagged him. Then she told the riddle to the sons of her people.
So the Philistine lords came up to her and said to her, “Coax him, see where his great strength comes from and by what we may overpower him, so we may bind him to subdue him—then we’ll each of us give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have never been dried, then I would be weak and be like any other man.”