Księga Sędziów 11:37

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Nadto rzekła do ojca swego: To mi tylko uczyń: puść mię na dwa miesiące, że pójdę a wstąpię na góry i opłakiwać będę panieństwo moje, ja i towarzyszki moje.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Nad to rzekła do ojca swego: Dozwól mi tego, a puść mię na dwa miesiąca, abych szła na góry a opłakała dziewictwo moje z towarzyszkami memi.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Nadto rzekła do ojca swego: To mi tylko uczyń: puść mię na dwa miesiące, że pójdę a wstąpię na góry i opłakiwać będę panieństwo moje, ja i towarzyszki moje.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Potem powiedziała do ojca: Spełnij mi tylko tę prośbę: Pozostaw mi dwa miesiące. Chciałabym z przyjaciółkami pójść w góry, by opłakiwać tam to, że nigdy nie zaznam macierzyństwa.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Jednak powiedziała do swego ojca: Niech mi to będzie uczynione: Puść mnie jeszcze na dwa miesiące, abym poszła, weszła na góry i opłakiwała moje dziewictwo; ja oraz moje towarzyszki.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Powiedziała też do swego ojca: Tylko uczyń dla mnie to jedno: wypuść mnie na dwa miesiące, bym mogła pójść i chodzić po górach, i opłakiwać moje dziewictwo, ja i moje towarzyszki.

Biblia Warszawska
Poprosiła tylko swojego ojca: Niech to będzie mi użyczone: pozostaw mi dwa miesiące czasu, abym mogła pójść i chodzić po górach, i opłakiwać moje dziewictwo wraz z moimi towarzyszkami.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

go up and down: Heb. go and go down

bewail: 1 Samuel 1:6, Luke 1:25

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said unto her father, let this thing be done for me,.... She had but one favour to ask of him, which she thought might be granted, without any breach of the vow:

let me alone two months she desired such a space of time might be allowed her before the vow took place; and the rather she might be encouraged to expect that her request would be granted, since no time was fixed by the vow for the accomplishment of it, and since the time she asked was not very long, and the end to be answered not unreasonable

that I may go up and down upon the mountains; or, "ascend upon the mountains" h; Jepthah's house in Mizpeh being higher than the mountains; or there might be, as Kimchi and Ben Melech note, a valley between that and the mountains, to which she descended in order to go up to the mountains; see Judges 9:25 these she chose to make her abode, and take her walks in, during the time she asked, as being most fit for retirement and solitude; where she might give up herself to meditation and prayer, and conversation with her fellow virgins she would take with her, and so be wrought up to a greater degree of resignation and submission to her father's will, and to the will of God in it, as she might suppose:

and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows; the virgins her companions; this she proposed to be the subject that she and her associates would dwell upon, during this time of solitude; and the rather, as this may be thought to be the thing contained in the vow, that as she was a virgin, so she should continue; by which means she would not be the happy instrument of increasing the number of the children of Israel, nor of being the progenitor of the Messiah; upon which accounts it was reckoned in those times to be very grievous and reproachful to live and die without issue, and so matter of lamentation and weeping.

h וירדתי על ההרים "et descendam super montes", Pagninus, Montanus; "descendamque ad montes", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bewail my virginity - To become a wife and a mother was the end of existence to an Israelite maiden. The premature death of Jephthah’s daughter was about to frustrate this end.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 11:37. I and my fellows — Whether she meant the young women of her own acquaintance, or those who had been consecrated to God in the same way, though on different accounts, is not quite clear; but it is likely she means her own companions: and her going up and down upon the mountains may signify no more than her paying each of them a visit at their own houses, previously to her being shut up at the tabernacle; and this visiting of each at their own home might require the space of two months. This I am inclined to think is the meaning of this difficult clause.