Juges 15
1 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;
And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying:
2 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. "
I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.
3 Samson leur dit: " Cette fois je serai innocent envers les Philistins, si je leur fais du mal. "
And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
4 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.
And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
5 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.
And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch, that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.
6 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.
Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.
7 Samson leur dit: " C'est ainsi que vous agissez! Eh bien, je ne cesserai qu'après m'être vengé de vous. "
But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
8 Et il les battit rudement, cuisse et hanche; il descendit ensuite et demeura dans la caverne du rocher d'Etam.
And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.
9 Alors les Philistins montèrent et campèrent en Juda, se répandant en Léchi.
Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread.
10 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. "
And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay him for what he hath done against us.
11 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. "
Wherefore three thousand men of Juda, went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12 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. "
And they said to him, We are come to bind thee and to deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear to me, and promise me, that you will not kill me.
13 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.
They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.
14 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.
Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as the flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.
15 Trouvant une mâchoire d'âne fraîche, il étendit la main, la saisit et en frappa mille hommes.
And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
16 Et Samson dit: " Avec une mâchoire d'âne, je les ai bien asinés (rossés), avec une mâchoire d'âne, j'ai frappé mille hommes. "
And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.
17 Quand il eut achevé de parler, il jeta de sa main la mâchoire, et nomma ce lieu Ramath-Léchi.
And when he had ended these words singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.
18 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? "
Arid being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.
19 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.
Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass, and waters issued out of it. And when he had drank them he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.
20 Samson jugea Israël, au temps des Philistins, pendant vingt ans.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
