So may all Your enemies perish, O Eternal One! But may those who love You be like the sun, rising and going forth with power! After this victory, the people knew peace from war for 40 years.

But please give me two months to go and weep in the highlands with my friends, since I will never love a man and raise a family.

Jephthah: You may go. She and her friends went away and wailed upon the mountains because she would never know the love of a man;

Samson’s wife went to him and wept in front of him. Samson’s Wife: You say you love me, but you don’t. You asked my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer. Samson: I haven’t even told my parents the answer. Why should I tell you?

After this he fell in love with Delilah, a woman from the valley of Sorek.

Delilah: How can you say you love me when your actions prove your heart is somewhere else? Three times now you’ve lied to me and haven’t told me why you have such great strength.