Juges 15
1 Au bout d’un certain temps, à l’époque de la récolte des blés, Samson voulut revoir sa femme et lui apporta un jeune chevreau, en disant: "Je désire aller auprès de ma femme, dans sa chambre"; mais le père de sa femme ne lui permit pas d’y entrer.
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
2 "J’Ai pensé sérieusement, dit-il, que tu l’avais prise en haine, et je l’ai donnée à l’un de tes compagnons. Du reste, sa sœur cadette est mieux qu’elle, prends-la à sa place."
Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
3 "Cela étant, répondit Samson, les Philistins ne pourront s’en prendre à moi si je leur fais du mal."
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
4 Là-dessus il s’en alla prendre trois cents chacals, se munit de torches, et, attachant les animaux queue à queue, fixa une torche entre chaque paire de queues;
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
5 puis, ayant mis le feu aux torches, il lâcha les chacals dans les blés des Philistins et les incendia, blés en meule et blés sur pied, et jusqu’aux plants d’oliviers.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
6 Les Philistins demandèrent: "Qui a fait cela?" On leur dit: "C’Est Samson, le gendre du Timnite, parce que celui-ci a pris sa femme et l’a donnée à son compagnon." Et ils allèrent, et ils brûlèrent cette femme avec 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 burned her and her father with fire.
7 Samson leur dit: "Puisque vous agissez de la sorte, il faut que je me venge sur vous-mêmes, et alors seulement je serai tranquille."
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
8 Et il les battit dos et ventre, ce fut une défaite considérable, après quoi il se retira dans un creux de rocher près d’Etam.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
9 Les Philistins montèrent alors au pays de Juda, y établirent leur camp et se déployèrent vers Léhi.
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 Les hommes de Juda leur dirent: "Pourquoi venez-vous nous attaquer?" Ils répondirent: "C’Est pour prendre Samson que nous sommes venus, voulant lui rendre le mal qu’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 Alors trois mille hommes de Juda descendirent au creux du rocher d’Etam, et dirent à Samson: "Ne sais-tu pas que les Philistins sont nos maîtres? Qu’est-ce donc que tu nous as fait là!" Il répondit: "Je les ai traités comme ils m’ont traité."
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you 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 I have done to them.”
12 Ils reprirent: "Nous sommes venus pour t’enchaîner et te livrer aux Philistins." Et Samson leur dit: "Jurez-moi que vous ne voulez point me frapper!"
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 attack me yourselves.”
13 "Nullement, lui dirent-ils; nous voulons seulement te lier et te livrer à eux, mais nous ne te ferons pas mourir." Et ils le lièrent avec deux cordes neuves, et l’emmenèrent hors du rocher.
They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
14 Comme il arrivait à Léhi et que les Philistins l’accueillaient avec des cris de triomphe, l’esprit divin le saisit, et les cordes qui serraient ses bras devinrent comme du lin roussi au feu, et les liens tombèrent de ses bras.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15 Apercevant une mâchoire d’âne encore fraîche, il avança la main et s’en saisit, et en frappa un millier d’hommes.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16 Et Samson s’écria: "Une troupe, deux troupes, vaincues par une mâchoire d’âne! Par une mâchoire d’âne, mille hommes en déroute!…"
Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
17 En achevant ces mots il jeta la mâchoire à terre; et l’on appela ce lieu Ramath-Léhi.
When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
18 Comme il était fort altéré, il invoqua l’Eternel en disant: "Toi qui as assuré à la main de ton serviteur cette grande victoire, le laisseras-tu maintenant mourir de soif et tomber au pouvoir des incirconcis?"
He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19 Dieu fendit la roche concave de Léhi, et il en sortit de l’eau; Samson but, revint à lui et fut réconforté. De là cette source s’est appelée, jusqu’à ce jour, la Source de l’Invocateur à Léhi.
But God split the hollow place that is in 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 Samson gouverna Israël, à l’époque des Philistins, vingt années.
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
