Juges 15
1 Et il arriva quelque temps après, pendant les jours de la moisson des froments, que Samson alla visiter sa femme, avec un chevreau; et il dit: Je veux entrer vers ma femme dans la chambre. Mais le père ne lui permit pas d’entrer.
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.
2 Et le père dit: J’ai pensé que tu l’avais en haine, et je l’ai donnée à ton compagnon. Sa jeune sœur n’est-elle pas plus belle qu’elle? Prends-la à sa place, je te prie.
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."
3 Et Samson leur dit: Cette fois je suis innocent à l’égard des Philistins si je leur fais du mal.
Samson said to him, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."
4 Et Samson s’en alla, et prit 300 chacals; et il prit des torches, et tourna [les chacals] queue contre queue, et mit une torche entre les deux queues, au milieu.
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.
5 Et il mit le feu aux torches, et lâcha [les chacals] dans les blés des Philistins; et il brûla tant les tas de gerbes que le blé sur pied et les plantations d’oliviers.
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.
6 Et les Philistins dirent: Qui a fait cela? Et on dit: Samson, le gendre du Thimnite; parce qu’il lui a pris sa femme et l’a donnée à son compagnon. Et les Philistins montèrent, et la brûlèrent au feu, elle et son père.
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.
7 Et Samson leur dit: Si c’est ainsi que vous faites, alors certes je me vengerai de vous, et après je cesserai.
Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease."
8 Et il les frappa d’un grand coup, à leur casser bras et jambes. Et il descendit, et habita dans une caverne du rocher d’Étam.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Et les Philistins montèrent, et campèrent en Juda, et se répandirent en Lékhi.
Then the Philistines went up, and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
10 Et les hommes de Juda dirent: Pourquoi êtes-vous montés contre nous? Et ils dirent: Nous sommes montés pour lier Samson, afin de lui faire comme il nous a fait.
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."
11 Et 3 000 hommes de Juda descendirent à la caverne du rocher d’Étam, et dirent à Samson: Ne sais-tu pas que les Philistins dominent sur nous? Et que nous as-tu fait? Et il leur dit: Comme ils m’ont fait, ainsi je leur ai fait.
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."
12 Et ils lui dirent: Nous sommes descendus pour te lier, afin de te livrer en la main des Philistins. Et Samson leur dit: Jurez-moi que vous ne vous jetterez pas sur moi.
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."
13 Et ils lui parlèrent, disant: Non, mais nous voulons te lier, et nous te livrerons en leur main; mais certainement nous ne te tuerons pas. Et ils le lièrent avec deux cordes neuves, et le firent monter hors du rocher.
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.
14 Il vint jusqu’à Lékhi, et les Philistins poussèrent des cris à sa rencontre. Et l’Esprit de l’Éternel le saisit; et les cordes qui étaient à ses bras devinrent comme de l’étoupe qui brûle au feu, et ses liens coulèrent de dessus ses mains.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah 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.
15 Et il trouva une mâchoire d’âne fraîche, et il étendit sa main et la prit, et en frappa 1 000 hommes.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Et Samson dit: Avec la mâchoire de l’âne, un monceau, deux monceaux! Avec la mâchoire de l’âne j’ai frappé 1 000 hommes.
Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."
17 Et il arriva que, quand il eut achevé de parler, il jeta de sa main la mâchoire, et nomma ce lieu-là Ramath-Lékhi.
It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Et il eut une très grande soif, et il cria à l’Éternel, et dit: Tu as donné par la main de ton serviteur cette grande délivrance, et maintenant je mourrais de soif, et je tomberais entre les mains des incirconcis!
He was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, 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?"
19 Et Dieu fendit le rocher creux qui était à Lékhi, et il en sortit de l’eau; et il but, et son esprit revint, et il vécut: c’est pourquoi le nom de cette [source] fut appelé En-Hakkoré; elle est à Lékhi, jusqu’à ce jour.
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.
20 Et [Samson] jugea Israël, aux jours des Philistins, 20 ans.
He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
