Judges 15
1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
Quelque temps après, aux jours de la moisson des blés, Samson alla visiter sa femme, et lui porta un chevreau de lait, en disant: Je veux entrer vers ma femme, dans sa chambre. Mais le père ne lui permit pas d'y entrer.
2 And her father said, I truly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray you, instead of her.
Et le père lui dit: J'ai cru que tu avais de l'aversion pour elle; c'est pourquoi je l'ai donnée à ton compagnon. Sa jeune sœur n'est-elle pas plus belle qu'elle? Prends-la donc à sa place.
3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
Mais Samson leur dit: Cette fois je serai innocent à l'égard des Philistins, quand je leur ferai du mal.
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the middle between two tails.
Samson s'en alla donc, et attrapa trois cents renards; il prit aussi des flambeaux, et il tourna les queues des renards les unes contre les autres, et il mit un flambeau entre les deux queues, au milieu.
5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Puis, ayant allumé les flambeaux, il lâcha les renards dans les blés des Philistins. Il brûla ainsi tant le blé qui était en gerbes que celui qui était sur pied, et jusqu'aux plantations d'oliviers.
6 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Et les Philistins dirent: Qui a fait cela? Et on répondit: Samson, le gendre du Thimnien; parce qu'il lui a pris sa femme, et l'a donnée à son compagnon. Alors les Philistins montèrent et la brûlèrent, elle et son père.
7 And Samson said to them, Though you have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Mais Samson leur dit: C'est ainsi que vous en usez? Cependant je ne cesserai point que je ne me sois vengé de vous.
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelled in the top of the rock Etam.
Et il les battit dos et ventre, et en fit un grand carnage. Puis il descendit, et habita dans un creux du rocher d'Étam.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Alors les Philistins montèrent, campèrent en Juda, et se répandirent à Léchi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
Et les hommes de Juda dirent: Pourquoi êtes-vous montés contre nous? Ils répondirent: Nous sommes montés pour lier Samson, pour lui faire comme il nous a fait.
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Know you not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that you have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
Alors trois mille hommes de Juda descendirent vers la caverne du rocher d'Étam, et dirent à Samson: Ne sais-tu pas que les Philistins dominent sur nous? Pourquoi nous as-tu fait cela? Il leur répondit: Je leur ai fait comme ils m'ont fait.
12 And they said to him, We are come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that you will not fall on me yourselves.
Ils lui dirent encore: Nous sommes descendus pour te lier, afin de te livrer entre les mains des Philistins. Et Samson leur dit: Jurez-moi que vous ne me tuerez pas.
13 And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Et ils répondirent, et dirent: Non, nous te lierons et nous te livrerons entre leurs mains; mais nous ne te tuerons point. Ils le lièrent donc de deux cordes neuves, et le firent sortir du rocher.
14 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the cords that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
Or, quand il vint à Léchi, les Philistins poussèrent des cris de joie à sa rencontre. Mais l'Esprit de l'Éternel le saisit, et les cordes qu'il avait aux bras devinrent comme du lin brûlé par le feu; ses liens tombèrent de ses mains.
15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Et, ayant trouvé une mâchoire d'âne, toute fraîche, il étendit la main, la prit, et en frappa mille hommes.
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps on heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Alors Samson dit: Avec une mâchoire d'âne, un monceau, deux monceaux! Avec une mâchoire d'âne j'ai tué mille hommes!
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
Et quand il eut achevé de parler, il jeta de sa main la mâchoire, et nomma ce lieu-là Ramath-Léchi (la mâchoire jetée).
18 And he was sore thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, You have given this great deliverance into the hand of your servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Et, pressé par la soif, il cria à l'Éternel, et dit: Tu as accordé à ton serviteur cette grande délivrance; et maintenant mourrais-je de soif, et tomberais-je entre les mains des incirconcis?
19 But God split an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of there; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: why he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
Alors Dieu fendit le rocher creux qui est à Léchi et les eaux en sortirent; et Samson but; son esprit se remit, et il reprit courage. C'est pourquoi, ce lieu, qui est à Léchi, a été appelé jusqu'à ce jour: En-Hakkoré (la source de celui qui invoque).
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Et il jugea Israël, au temps des Philistins, pendant vingt ans.
