Livro dos Juízes 15

SAGRADA BIBLIA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Passado algum tempo, estando próxima a ceifa do trigo, Sansão foi ver a sua mulher, levando-lhe um cabrito. Quero, dizia ele, entrar no quarto de minha mulher. O pai dela, porém, impediu-lhe a entrada:	1 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 Eu pensei, disse ele a Sansão, que a aborrecias, e por isso dei-a a um teu amigo. Não é, porventura, mais formosa do que ela sua irmã mais nova? Toma-a por mulher em seu lugar.	2 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 Desta vez, respondeu Sansão, não se me poderá censurar o mal que farei aos filisteus.	3 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 Ele se retirou, apanhou trezentas raposas e, tomando tochas, prendeu as raposas duas a duas pelas caudas e atou entre as duas caudas uma tocha.	4 And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
5 Pôs-lhes fogo e soltou-as nas searas dos filisteus. Incendiou assim tanto o trigo que estava enfeixado como o que estava ainda em pé, queimando até mesmo as vinhas e os olivais.	5 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 Quem fez isso?, perguntaram os filisteus. Responderam: Foi Sansão, genro do tamneu, porque este tomou sua mulher e a deu a um de seus amigos. Então subiram os filisteus e queimaram a mulher juntamente com o seu pai.	6 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 Sansão disse-lhes: Ah, é assim que fazeis? Pois bem: não descansarei enquanto não me tiver vingado de vós.	7 But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
8 E feriu-os vigorosamente, sem compaixão alguma. Depois disso, desceu e habitou na gruta da rocha de Etão.	8 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 Então subiram os filisteus e acamparam em Judá, espalhando-se até Lequi.	9 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 Os homens de Judá disseram: Por que subistes contra nós? Eles responderam: Subimos para prender Sansão e pagar-lhe o que ele nos fez.	10 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 Três mil homens de Judá desceram então à gruta do rochedo de Etão e disseram a Sansão: Não sabes que os filisteus nos dominam? Que é isso que nos fizeste? Eu tratei-os como eles mesmos me trataram a mim, respondeu Sansão.	11 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 Eles replicaram: Viemos prender-te para entregar-te aos filisteus. Jurai-me, disse Sansão, que não me haveis de matar.	12 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 Não te mataremos, mas entregar-te-emos a eles amarrado. Ligaram-no, pois, com duas cordas novas e tiraram-no da gruta.	13 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 Chegando a Lequi, os filisteus acolheram-no com gritos de alegria. Apoderou-se, porém, de Sansão o Espírito do Senhor, e as duas cordas que ligavam seus braços tornaram-se como fios de linho queimado, caindo de suas mãos as amarraduras.	14 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 Apanhando uma queixada ainda fresca de jumento, feriu com ela mil homens.	15 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
16 Sansão dizia: Com a queixada de um jumento, eu os destrocei! Com a queixada de um jumento mil homens feri!	16 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 Dito isso, lançou ao longe a queixada e deu àquele lugar o nome de Ramat-Lequi.	17 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 Sentindo uma sede intensa, clamou ao Senhor: Vós destes, disse ele, ao vosso servo esta grande vitória. Morrerei eu agora de sede e cairei nas mãos dos incircuncisos?	18 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 Então Deus fendeu a rocha côncava que está em Lequi, e dela jorrou água. Sansão, tendo bebido dessa água, recobrou ânimo e recuperou as forças. Daí o nome que traz essa fonte: En-Hacoré. Ainda hoje ela existe em Lequi.	19 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 Sansão foi juiz em Israel durante vinte anos no tempo dos filisteus.	20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.