Judges 15
1 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow 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 Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her, instead."
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 Samson said to him, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."
Mais Samson leur dit: Cette fois je serai innocent à l'égard des Philistins, quand je leur ferai du mal.
4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every 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 fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
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?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father's house 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 Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will surely take revenge on 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 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of 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 camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
Alors les Philistins montèrent, campèrent en Juda, et se répandirent à Léchi.
10 The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, 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 down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" 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 They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." 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 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." They bound him with two new ropes, 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 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped 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 fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
Et, ayant trouvé une mâchoire d'âne, toute fraîche, il étendit la main, la prit, et en frappa mille hommes.
16 Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck 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 It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
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 He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, "You have given this great deliverance by 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 And God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore its name was called En Hakkore, 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 He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Et il jugea Israël, au temps des Philistins, pendant vingt ans.
