< 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].
ORA, dopo [alquanti] giorni, al tempo della ricolta delle biade, Sansone andò a visitare la sua moglie, portandole un capretto, e disse: Io voglio entrar dalla mia moglie, in camera sua; ma il padre di essa non gli permise di entrarvi.
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!”
E gli disse: Io stimava sicuramente che del tutto tu l'odiavi; e però la diedi al tuo compagno; la sorella sua minore non [è] ella più bella di lei? deh! prendila in luogo di essa.
3 Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!”
E Sansone disse loro: Ora non avrò colpa de' Filistei, quando io farò loro del male.
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.
Sansone adunque andò, e prese trecento volpi; prese ancora delle fiaccole; e, volte le code [delle volpi] l'una contro all'altra, mise una fiaccola nel mezzo fra due code.
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.
Poi accese le fiaccole, e cacciò [le volpi] nelle biade de' Filistei, ed arse le biade ch'erano in bica, e quelle ch'erano ancora in piè, e le vigne, e gli ulivi.
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.
E i Filistei dissero: Chi ha fatto questo? E fu detto: Sansone, genero di quel Timneo; perciocchè egli ha presa la sua moglie, e l'ha data al suo compagno. E i Filistei andarono, ed arsero col fuoco lei, e suo padre.
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!”
E Sansone disse loro: Fate voi a questo modo? se io non mi vendico di voi; poi resterò.
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.
Ed egli li percosse con grande sconfitta, [percotendoli] con la coscia in su i fianchi. Poi discese, e si fermò nella caverna della rupe di 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].
E i Filistei salirono, e si accamparono in Giuda, e si sparsero in Lehi.
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.”
E gli uomini di Giuda dissero: Perchè siete voi saliti contro a noi? Ed essi dissero: Noi siamo saliti per far prigione Sansone; acciocchè facciamo a lui, come egli ha fatto a noi.
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.”
E tremila uomini di Giuda discesero nella caverna della rupe di Etam, e dissero a Sansone: Non sai tu che i Filistei signoreggiano sopra noi? Che cosa [è] dunque questo [che] tu ci hai fatto? Ed egli disse loro: Come hanno fatto a me, così ho fatto a loro.
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!”
Ed essi gli dissero: Noi siamo discesi per farti prigione, per darti nelle mani dei Filistei. E Sansone disse loro: Giuratemi che voi non vi avventerete sopra me.
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.
Ed essi gli dissero: No; ma ben ti legheremo, e ti daremo nelle mani de' Filistei; ma non ti faremo già morire. Così lo legarono con due funi nuove, e lo menarono via dalla rupe.
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.
Quando egli fu giunto a Lehi, i Filistei gli vennero incontro, con grida d'allegrezza; ma lo Spirito del Signore si avventò sopra lui; e le funi ch'egli avea in su le braccia, diventarono come lino che si arde al fuoco, e i suoi legami si sciolsero d'in su le sue mani.
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.
E, trovata una mascella d'asino non ancora secca, vi diè della mano; e, presala, ammazzò con essa mille uomini.
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.”
Poi Sansone disse: Con una mascella d'asino, un mucchio, due mucchi! Con una mascella d'asino, ho uccisi mille uomini!
17 When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill.
E, quando ebbe finito di parlare, gittò via di sua mano la mascella; e pose nome a quel luogo Ramat-lehi.
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]?”
Poi ebbe gran sete; e gridò al Signore, e disse: Tu hai messa questa gran vittoria in mano al tuo servo; ed ora ho io a morir di sete, e a cader nelle mani degl'incirconcisi?
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.
Allora Iddio fendè un sasso concavo ch'[era] in Lehi; e d'esso uscì dell'acqua, onde Sansone bevve, ed egli tornò in vita; perciò pose nome a quel luogo En-haccore; la qual [fonte è] in Lehi, fino a questo giorno.
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].
Ed egli giudicò Israele al tempo dei Filistei vent'anni.

< Judges 15 >