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How can you say, I love you, when you do not share your secrets with me?

Delilah asks this question to cause Samson to feel bad for not telling her the secret of his strength. AT: "When you say 'I love you,' it must be a lie because you do not share your secrets with me." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)

pressed him hard...pressured him

This phrase uses physical pressure to express the feeling a person has when someone continually tries to persuade them to do something. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)

that he wished he would die

This phrase expresses that a person is so angry or sad that his emotions are compared to someone who might want to die. AT: "that he was very sad and angry" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole)