Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

New Century Version

Judges 15:7

Then Samson said to the Philistines, "Since you did this, I won't stop until I pay you back!"

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 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 King James Version
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."
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 At the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, taking a young goat with him. He said, "I'm going to my wife's room," but her father would not let him go in. 2 He said to Samson, "I thought you really hated your wife, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more beautiful. Take her instead." 3 But Samson said to them, "This time no one will blame me for hurting you Philistines!" 4 So Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. He took two foxes at a time, tied their tails together, and then tied a torch to the tails of each pair of foxes. 5 After he lit the torches, he let the foxes loose in the grainfields of the Philistines so that he burned up their standing grain, the piles of grain, their vineyards, and their olive trees. 6 The Philistines asked, "Who did this?" Someone told them, "Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah, did because his father-in-law gave his wife to his best man." So the Philistines burned Samson's wife and her father to death. 7 Then Samson said to the Philistines, "Since you did this, I won't stop until I pay you back!" 8 Samson attacked the Philistines and killed many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in 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
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord God , what can you give me? I have no son, so my slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."
Genesis 15:4
Then the Lord spoke his word to Abram: "He will not be the one to inherit what you have. You will have a son of your own who will inherit what you have."
Genesis 15:7
God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."
Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"
Genesis 15:15
And you, Abram, will die in peace and will be buried at an old age.
Genesis 15:17
After the sun went down, it was very dark. Suddenly a smoking firepot and a blazing torch passed between the halves of the dead animals.
Psalms 105:11
The Lord said, "I will give you the land of Canaan, and it will belong to you."
Psalms 105:42
He remembered his holy promise to his servant Abraham.

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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile