Judges 16:15 (YLT)

Passage

And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power <FI>is<Fi> .'

Nearby Context

Judges 16:13 And Delilah saith unto Samson, `Hitherto thou hast played upon me, and dost speak unto me lies; declare to me wherewith thou art bound.' And he saith unto her, `If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.'

Judges 16:14 And she fixeth <FI>it<Fi> with the pin, and saith unto him, `Philistines <FI>are<Fi> upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web.

Judges 16:15 And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power <FI>is<Fi> .'

Judges 16:16 And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,

Judges 16:17 that he declareth to her all his heart, and saith to her, `A razor hath not gone up on my head, for a Nazarite to God I <FI>am<Fi> from the womb of my mother; if I have been shaven, then hath my power turned aside from me, and I have been weak, and have been as any of the human race.'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "saith", "dost", "thou", "loved", "thee", "heart", "three", and "times". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "saith" and "dost", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 14's "And she fixeth FI it Fi with..." into verse 16's "And it cometh to pass because she...", so "saith" and "dost" belong inside that flow. In Judges context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "saith" and "dost" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.