My Hebrew education didn't extend to the future tense, but according to

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA#Conjugation

תָּמוּת is either second person masculine future, or third person feminine future. But according to

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%A9

נֶפֶשׁ is feminine. So it seems that only the third person form could agree with the subject noun, right?

Apparently, that's how Biblical Hebrew expressed the jussive. German uses 3rd person subjunctive ("Meine Seele sterbe mit den Philistern"), Polish (and other Slavic languages, I imagine) also uses 3rd person future but with explicit "let" thrown in: "Niech umrze dusza moja z Filistynami".

But those are the older translations — those quotes are from Luther Bible (1534) and Gdansk Bible (1632); you can find newer translations that use the wording of "let me perish with the Philistines" variety as well.

That sounds like a person resigned to his death.

The other line sounds like a plea to others.

I can't help but wonder about LLM translations... will they do it better or worse or just different? I can wonder if it might be with less bias, or with a better body to pull from, but I can see it can be slop too.

> That sounds like a person resigned to his death.

Well, yes, precisely. Just two verses earlier Samson prayed to God, asking to grant him a last bout of strength to take revenge at the Philistines for blinding him: "And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."