Judges 15
1 During the time that they harvested wheat, Samson took a young goat to Timnah as a present for his wife. He planned to sleep with [EUP] his wife, but her father would not let him go into [her room].
Quelque temps après, à l’époque de la moisson des blés, Samson alla voir sa femme, en apportant un chevreau. Il dit: « Je veux entrer auprès de ma femme dans sa chambre. » Mais son père ne lui accorda pas l’entrée;
2 He said to Samson, “I really thought that you hated her. So I gave her to the man who had been your best man at the wedding, and she married him. But look, her younger sister is [RHQ] more beautiful than she is. You can marry her!”
et son père dit: « J’ai pensé que tu avais pour elle de la haine, et je l’ai donnée à ton ami. Est-ce que sa jeune sœur n’est pas plus belle qu’elle? Qu’elle soit ta femme à sa place. »
3 Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
Samson leur dit: « Cette fois je serai innocent envers les Philistins, si je leur fais du mal. »
4 Then he went out [into the fields] and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together, two-by-two. He fastened torches to each pair of tails.
Et Samson s’en alla. Il attrapa trois cents renards et, ayant pris des torches, il tourna les renards queue contre queue, et mit une torche entre les deux queues, au milieu.
5 Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the fields of the Philistines. The fire [from the torches] burned all the grain to the ground, including the grain that had been cut and piled in bundles. The fire also burned down their grapevines and their olive trees.
Il alluma ensuite les torches et lâcha les renards dans les moissons des Philistins; il embrasa depuis les tas de gerbes jusqu’aux blés sur pied et aux plantations d’oliviers.
6 The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” Someone told them, “Samson did it. He married a woman from Timnah, but then his father-in-law gave her to the man who was Samson’s best man at the wedding, and she married him.” So the Philistines went [to Timnah] and got the woman and her father, and burned them to death.
Les Philistins dirent: « Qui a fait cela? » On répondit: « C’est Samson, le gendre du Thamnéen, parce que celui-ci lui a pris sa femme et l’a donnée à son ami. » Et les Philistins étant montés, ils la brûlèrent, elle et son père.
7 Samson [found out about that, and he] said to them, “Because you have done this, I will not stop until I get revenge on you!”
Samson leur dit: « C’est ainsi que vous agissez! Eh bien, je ne cesserai qu’après m’être vengé de vous. »
8 So he attacked the Philistines furiously, and killed many of them. Then he went [to hide] in a cave in the large rock at a place called Etam.
Et il les battit rudement, cuisse et hanche; il descendit ensuite et demeura dans la caverne du rocher d’Etam.
9 The Philistines [did not know where he was, so they] went up to where the descendants of Judah lived, set up their tents near Lehi [town and then raided the town].
Alors les Philistins montèrent et campèrent en Juda, se répandant en Léchi.
10 The men there asked the Philistines, “Why have you attacked us?” The Philistines replied, “We have come to capture Samson. We have come to get revenge on him for what he did to us.”
Les hommes de Juda dirent: « Pourquoi êtes-vous tournés contre nous? » Ils répondirent: « Nous sommes montés pour lier Samson, afin de le traiter comme il nous a traités. »
11 [Someone there knew where Samson was hiding]. So 3,000 men from Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock where he was hiding. They said to Samson, “Do you not realize that the people of Philistia are ruling over us? Do you not realize what they will do to us?” Samson replied, “The only thing I did was that I got revenge on them for what they did to me.”
Trois mille hommes de Juda descendirent à la caverne du rocher d’Etam, et dirent à Samson: « Ne sais-tu pas que les Philistins sont nos maîtres? Qu’est-ce que tu nous as fait là? » Il leur répondit: « Je les ai traités comme ils m’ont traité. »
12 But the men from Judah said to him, “We have come to tie you up and put you in the hands of the Philistines.” Samson said, “All right, but promise me that you yourselves will not kill me!”
Ils lui dirent: « Nous sommes descendus pour te lier, afin de te livrer entre les mains des Philistins. » Samson leur dit: « Jurez-moi que vous ne voulez pas me tuer. »
13 They replied, “We will just tie you up and take you to the Philistines. We will not kill you.” So they tied him with two new ropes, and led him away from the cave.
Ils lui répondirent en disant: « Non; nous voulons seulement te lier et te livrer entre leurs mains, mais nous ne te ferons pas mourir. » Et l’ayant lié de deux cordes neuves, ils le firent monter du rocher.
14 When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came toward him, shouting [triumphantly]. But Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully. He snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they were stalks of burned flax, and the ropes fell off his wrists.
Lorsqu’il arriva à Léchi, les Philistins poussèrent à sa rencontre des cris de joie. Alors l’Esprit de Yahweh le saisit, et les cordes qu’il avait aux bras devinrent comme des fils de lin brûlés par le feu, et ses liens tombèrent de ses mains.
15 Then he saw a donkey’s jawbone lying on the ground. It was fresh, [so it was hard]. He picked it up and killed about 1,000 Philistine men with it.
Trouvant une mâchoire d’âne fraîche, il étendit la main, la saisit et en frappa mille hommes.
16 Then Samson wrote this poem: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have made them like a heap of [dead] donkeys. With the jawbone of a donkey I killed 1,000 men.”
Et Samson dit: « Avec une mâchoire d’âne, je les ai bien asinés (rossés), avec une mâchoire d’âne, j’ai frappé mille hommes. »
17 When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
Quand il eut achevé de parler, il jeta de sa main la mâchoire, et nomma ce lieu Ramath-Léchi.
18 Then Samson was very thirsty, so he called out to Yahweh, “You have given me strength to win a great victory. So now must I die because of being thirsty, with the result that those heathen Philistines will take away my body [and mutilate it]?”
Dévoré par la soif, il invoqua Yahweh, et dit: « C’est vous qui avez accordé par la main de votre serviteur cette grande délivrance; et maintenant, faut-il que je meure de soif et que je tombe entre les mains des incirconcis? »
19 So God caused water to gush out of a depression in the ground at Lehi. Samson drank from it and soon felt strong again. He named that place ‘The spring of the one who called out’. That spring is still there at Lehi.
Et Dieu fendit le rocher creux qui est à Léchi, et il en sortit de l’eau. Samson but, son esprit se ranima et il reprit vie. C’est pourquoi on a appelé cette source En-Hakkoré; elle existe à Léchi, jusqu’à ce jour.
20 Samson was the leader of the Israeli people for 20 years, but during that time the Philistines [were the ones who really ruled over the land].
Samson jugea Israël, au temps des Philistins, pendant vingt ans.
