Livre des Juges 15

BIBLES DES PEUPLES	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Quelque temps plus tard, au moment de la moisson des blés, Samson alla voir sa femme avec un chevreau. Il dit: “Je voudrais être avec ma femme, dans sa chambre.” Mais son beau-père lui refusa l’entrée. Il lui dit:	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 “J’ai pensé que tu avais de la haine pour elle, aussi l’ai-je donnée à ton compagnon. Sa jeune sœur est plus belle, elle sera ta femme à sa place.”	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 Alors Samson leur dit à tous: “Cette fois, si je fais du mal aux Philistins, je ne leur devrai rien.”	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 Samson alla attraper 300 renards. Il prit des torches et il attacha les renards deux par deux par la queue, en plaçant une torche entre deux.	4 And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
5 Ensuite il alluma les torches et lâcha les renards dans les moissons des Philistins. C’est ainsi qu’il brûla tout: les meules, les épis sur pied, jusqu’aux vignes et aux oliviers.	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 Les Philistins demandèrent: “Qui a fait cela?” On leur répondit: “C’est Samson, le gendre de l’homme de Timna, parce que ce dernier a repris sa femme et l’a donnée à son camarade.” Alors les Philistins montèrent et brûlèrent la femme avec son père.	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 Samson leur dit: “C’est ainsi que vous agissez? Eh bien moi, je n’arrêterai que lorsque je me serai vengé de vous.”	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 Il leur administra une incroyable volée, puis il descendit pour séjourner dans la faille du Rocher d’Étam.	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 Les Philistins firent une incursion. Ils campèrent en territoire de Juda et s’infiltrèrent du côté de Léhi.	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 Les hommes de Juda leur dirent: “Pourquoi êtes-vous montés contre nous?” Ils répondirent: “Nous sommes montés pour lier Samson et le traiter comme il nous a traités.”	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 3 000 hommes de Juda descendirent à la caverne du Rocher d’Étam pour dire à Samson: “Ne sais-tu pas que les Philistins sont nos maîtres? Qu’as-tu fait?” Il leur répondit: “Je les ai traités comme ils m’ont traité.”	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 Les hommes de Juda lui dirent: “Nous sommes descendus pour te lier et te livrer entre les mains des Philistins.” Samson leur dit: “Jurez-moi que vous ne me tuerez pas!”	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 Ils lui répondirent: “Non, nous allons te lier et te livrer entre leurs mains, mais nous ne te tuerons pas.” Ils le ligotèrent donc avec deux cordes neuves et le ramenèrent du Rocher d’Étam.	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 Comme il arrivait près de Léhi, les Philistins vinrent à sa rencontre en poussant des cris de joie. Alors l’esprit de Yahvé s’empara de lui. Les cordes qui étaient sur ses bras devinrent pour lui comme des fils de lin brûlés, et ses liens se défirent de ses mains.	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 Il trouva là une mâchoire d’âne toute fraîche, il la ramassa et assomma 1 000 Philistins.	15 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
16 Alors Samson s’écria: “Avec la mâchoire d’un âne, je les ai bien rossés. Avec la mâchoire d’un âne, j’en ai assommé 1 000.”	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 Lorsqu’il eut fini de parler, il jeta la mâchoire et appela cet endroit Ramat-Léhi.	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 Comme il avait très soif, il invoqua Yahvé et lui dit: “Tu as accordé à ton serviteur une bien grande victoire, mais tu vois que je meurs de soif et je vais tomber entre les mains des incirconcis.”	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 Alors Dieu fendit la caverne qui se trouve à Léhi: il en sortit de l’eau et il but. Il se ranima et il retrouva ses forces. C’est pour cela qu’on appelle cette source du nom d’En-Ha-Koré; on la voit encore aujourd’hui à Léhi.	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 Il jugea Israël pendant 20 ans, au temps des Philistins.	20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.