And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.

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.|

And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

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.

Samson said to them, 'Because you did this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.'

And Samson said to them, "Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted."

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.

Samson said . . ., Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you--By that act the husbandmen had been the instruments in avenging his private and personal wrongs. But as a judge, divinely appointed to deliver Israel, his work of retribution was not yet accomplished.

Samson therefore declared to them, "If ye do such things, truly (כּי) when I have avenged myself upon you, then will I cease," i.e., I will not cease till I have taken vengeance upon you.