24 Then, too, the people, seeing this, praised their god, and they said the same, 'Our god has delivered our adversary into our hands: the one who destroyed our land and who killed very many.'
25 And rejoicing in their celebration, having now taken food, they instructed that Samson be called, and that he be mocked before them. And having been brought from prison, he was mocked before them. And they caused him to stand between two pillars.
26 And he said to the boy who was guiding his steps, 'Permit me to touch the pillars, which support the entire house, and to lean against them, so that I may rest a little.'
27 Now the house was full of men and women. And all the leaders of the Philistines were there, as well as about three thousand persons, of both sexes, on the roof and in the upper level of the house, who were watching Samson being mocked.
28 Then, calling upon the Lord, he said, 'O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, so that I may avenge myself against my enemies, and so that I may receive one vengeance for the deprivation of my two eyes.'
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