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 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 "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."
And her father said, I truly thought that thou had 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 "Cela étant, répondit Samson, les Philistins ne pourront s’en prendre à moi si je leur fais du mal."
And Samson said to them, This time I shall be blameless in regard of the Philistines when I do them a mischief.
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;
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst 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.
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.
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? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has 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: "Puisque vous agissez de la sorte, il faut que je me venge sur vous-mêmes, et alors seulement je serai tranquille."
And Samson said to them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of 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.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
9 Les Philistins montèrent alors au pays de Juda, y établirent leur camp et se déployèrent vers Léhi.
Then the Philistines went up, and 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."
And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they said, We 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 cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Know thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that thou have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I 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!"
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 "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.
And they spoke to him, saying, No, but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, but truly we will not kill thee. And 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. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt 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.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote 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!…"
And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have smitten a thousand men.
17 En achevant ces mots il jeta la mâchoire à terre; et l’on appela ce lieu Ramath-Léhi.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away 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?"
And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou have given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand 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 there. And when he had drunk his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 Samson gouverna Israël, à l’époque des Philistins, vingt années.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
