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New King James Version

Judges 15:7

Samson said to them, "Since you would do a thing like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Revenge;   Samson;   Thompson Chain Reference - Meekness-Retaliation;   Retaliation;   Samson;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Philistines, the;   Revenge;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Samson;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Vengeance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Marriage;   Philistines;   Samson;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Samson;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Samson told them, “Because you did this, I swear that I won’t rest until I have taken vengeance on you.”
Hebrew Names Version
Shimshon said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
King James Version
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Lexham English Bible
Samson said to them, "If you want to behave like this, I swear I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you."
English Standard Version
And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit."
New Century Version
Then Samson said to the Philistines, "Since you did this, I won't stop until I pay you back!"
New English Translation
Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting."
Amplified Bible
Samson said to them, "If this is the way you act, be certain that I will take revenge on you, and [only] after that I will stop."
New American Standard Bible
Then Samson said to them, "If this is how you act, I will certainly take revenge on you, and only after that will I stop."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Samson saide vnto them, Though yee haue done this, yet wil I be auenged of you, and then I wil cease.
Legacy Standard Bible
Daarop sê Simson vir hulle: As julle so maak, sal ek sekerlik nie rus voordat ek my op julle gewreek het nie.
Contemporary English Version
When Samson found out what they had done, he went to them and said, "You killed them! And I won't rest until I get even with you."
Complete Jewish Bible
Shimshon said to them, "I will certainly have my revenge on you for doing such a thing; but after I do, I'll stop."
Darby Translation
And Samson said to them, If ye act thus, for a certainty I will avenge myself on you, and then I will cease.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Samson said to the Philistines, "You did this bad thing to me, so now I will do bad things to you. Then I will be finished with you!"
George Lamsa Translation
And Samson said to them, Because you have done this, I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Good News Translation
Samson told them, "So this is how you act! I swear that I won't stop until I pay you back!"
Literal Translation
And Samson said to them, Though you do this, yet I shall be avenged on you; and afterwards I will stop.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Samson sayde vnto them: I can suffre you to do this, neuertheles I wyl be aueged vpon you my selfe, and then wyl I leaue of.
American Standard Version
And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Bible in Basic English
And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Samson said vnto them: Though ye haue done this, yet will I be auenged of you, and then I will ceasse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'
King James Version (1611)
And Samson said vnto them, Though ye haue done this, yet will I be auenged of you, and after that, I wil cease.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Sampson said to them, Though ye may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.
English Revised Version
And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Berean Standard Bible
And Samson told them, "Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
To whiche Sampson seide, Thouy ye han do this, netheles yit Y schal axe veniaunce of you, and than Y schal reste.
Young's Literal Translation
And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'
Update Bible Version
And Samson said to them, If you act after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
World English Bible
Samson said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
New Living Translation
"Because you did this," Samson vowed, "I won't rest until I take my revenge on you!"
New Life Bible
Samson said to them, "For sure I will punish you for acting like this. After that I will stop."
New Revised Standard
Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will not stop until I have taken revenge on you."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Samson said to them, Though ye do the like of this, yet will I be avenged upon you, and, afterwards, will I cease.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
Revised Standard Version
And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged upon you, and after that I will quit."
THE MESSAGE
Samson then said, "If this is the way you're going to act, I swear I'll get even with you. And I'm not quitting till the job's done!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Samson said to them, "Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit."

Contextual Overview

1 After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he said, "Let me go in to my wife, into her room." But her father would not permit him to go in. 2 Her father said, "I really thought that you thoroughly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, take her instead." 3 And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless regarding the Philistines if I harm them!" 4 Then Samson went and caught three hundred foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails. 5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves. 6 Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they answered, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire. 7 Samson said to them, "Since you would do a thing like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease." 8 So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Though: Judges 14:4, Judges 14:19, Romans 12:19

Reciprocal: Esther 7:10 - Then was the king's Zechariah 6:8 - quieted

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
Acts 7:2-5">[xr] Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.
Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Genesis 15:4
And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir."
Genesis 15:7
Then He said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it."
Genesis 15:8
And he said, "Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?"
Genesis 15:15
Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:17
And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.
Psalms 105:11
Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance,"
Psalms 105:42
For He remembered His holy promise, And Abraham His servant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samson said unto them,.... After they had burnt his wife and her father in their dwelling house, by which they thought to appease him, being afraid of him:

though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you; not for burning his wife and father-in-law; his sense is, that though they had done this, in order to ingratiate themselves with him, yet he should not stop on this account, but be avenged on them, not for private injuries done to him, or any that had been in connection with him, but for public injuries done to Israel, and their oppression of them:

and after that I will cease; when he had taken full vengeance on them, and not before.


 
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