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;
But it came to pass after a while, 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 allow him to go in.
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. "
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
3 Samson leur dit: " Cette fois je serai innocent envers les Philistins, si je leur fais du mal. "
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them harm.
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 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between two 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 when he had lighted the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing grain, with the vineyards and olives.
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? 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.
7 Samson leur dit: " C'est ainsi que vous agissez! Eh bien, je ne cesserai qu'après m'être vengé de vous. "
And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8 Et il les battit rudement, cuisse et hanche; il descendit ensuite et demeura dans la caverne du rocher d'Etam.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9 Alors les Philistins montèrent et campèrent en Juda, se répandant en Léchi.
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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 Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, to do to him as he hath done to 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. "
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done to us? 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 have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
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.
And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee securely, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
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.
And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 Trouvant une mâchoire d'âne fraîche, il étendit la main, la saisit et en frappa mille hommes.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.
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 Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey have I 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 it came to pass, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
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? "
And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die by thirst, and fall into the hand 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.
But God opened an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore he called the name of it Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 Samson jugea Israël, au temps des Philistins, pendant vingt ans.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
