Livre des Juges 15

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 A quelque temps de là, à l'époque de la moisson des blés, Samson s'en vint revoir sa femme avec unchevreau, et il déclara: "Je veux entrer auprès de ma femme, dans sa chambre." Mais le beau-père ne le luipermit pas.	1 Then, after some time, when the days of the wheat harvest were near, Samson arrived, intending to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid from the goats. And when he wanted to enter her bedroom, as usual, her father prohibited him, saying:
2 "Je me suis dit, lui objecta-t-il, que tu l'avais prise en aversion et je l'ai donnée à ton compagnon.Mais sa soeur cadette ne vaut-elle pas mieux qu'elle? Qu'elle soit tienne à la place de l'autre!"	2 “I thought that you would hate her, and therefore I gave her to your friend. But she has a sister, who is younger and more beautiful than she is. And she may be a wife for you, instead of her.”
3 Samson leur répliqua: "Cette fois-ci, je ne serai quitte envers les Philistins qu'en leur faisant du mal."	3 And Samson answered him: “From this day, there shall be no guilt for me against the Philistines. For I will do harm to you all.”
4 Samson s'en alla donc, il captura 300 renards, prit des torches et, tournant les bêtes queue contrequeue, il plaça une torche entre les deux queues, au milieu.	4 And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails.
5 Il mit le feu aux torches, puis lâchant les renards dans les moissons des Philistins, il incendia aussibien les gerbes que le blé sur pied et même les vignes et les oliviers.	5 And setting these on fire, he released them, so that they might rush from place to place. And immediately they went into the grain fields of the Philistines, setting these on fire, both the grain that was already bound for carrying, and what was still standing on the stalk. These were completely burned up, so much so that the flame also consumed even the vineyards and the olive groves.
6 Les Philistins demandèrent: "Qui a fait cela?" Et l'on répondit: "C'est Samson, le gendre du Timnite,car celui-ci lui a repris sa femme et l'a donnée à son compagnon." Alors les Philistins montèrent et ils firent périrdans les flammes cette femme et la maison de son père.	6 And the Philistines said, “Who has done this thing?” And it was said: “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another. He has done these things.” And the Philistines went up and burned the woman as well as her father.
7 "Puisque c'est ainsi que vous agissez, leur dit Samson, eh bien! je ne cesserai qu'après m'être vengéde vous."	7 And Samson said to them, “Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted.”
8 Il les battit à plate couture et ce fut une défaite considérable. Après quoi il descendit à la grotte durocher d'Etam et y demeura.	8 And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave of the rock at Etam.
9 Les Philistins montèrent camper en Juda et ils firent une incursion à Lehi.	9 And so the Philistines, ascending into the land of Judah, made camp at the place which was later called Lehi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army spread out.
10 "Pourquoi êtes-vous montés contre nous?" Leur dirent alors les gens de Juda. "C'est pour lierSamson que nous sommes montés, répondirent-ils, pour le traiter comme il nous a traités."	10 And some from the tribe of Judah said to them, “Why have you ascended against us?” And they responded, “We have come to bind Samson, and to repay him for what he has done to us.”
11 3.000 hommes de Juda descendirent à la grotte du rocher d'Etam et dirent à Samson: "Ne sais-tu pasque les Philistins sont nos maîtres? Qu'est-ce que tu nous as fait là?" Il leur répondit: "Comme ils m'ont traité,c'est ainsi que je les ai traités."	11 Then three thousand men of Judah descended to the cave of the rock at Etam. And they said to Samson: “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why would you want to do this?” And he said to them, “As they have done to me, so I have done to them.”
12 Ils lui dirent alors: "Nous sommes descendus pour te lier, afin de te livrer aux mains des Philistins"-- "Jurez-moi, leur dit-il, que vous ne me tuerez pas vous-mêmes" --	12 And they said to him, “We have come to bind you, and to deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear and promise to me that you will not kill me.”
13 "Non! lui répondirent-ils, nous voulons seulement te lier et te livrer entre leurs mains, mais nous nevoulons certes pas te faire mourir." Alors ils le lièrent avec deux cordes neuves et ils le hissèrent du rocher.	13 They said: “We will not kill you. But we will deliver you tied.” And they bound him with two new cords. And they took him from the rock at Etam.
14 Comme il arrivait à Lehi et que les Philistins accouraient à sa rencontre avec des cris de triomphe,l'esprit de Yahvé fondit sur Samson, les cordes qu'il avait sur les bras furent comme des fils de lin brûlés au feuet les liens se dénouèrent de ses mains.	14 And when he had arrived at the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines, shouting aloud, had met him, the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. And just as flax is usually consumed by a hint of fire, so were the ties with which he was bound broken and released.
15 Trouvant une mâchoire d'âne encore fraîche, il étendit la main, la ramassa et avec elle il abattitmille hommes.	15 And finding a jawbone which was laying there, that is, the jawbone of a donkey, snatching it up, he put to death a thousand men with it.
16 Samson dit alors: "Avec une mâchoire d'âne, je les ai mis en tas. Avec une mâchoire d'âne, j'ai battumille hommes."	16 And he said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, with the jaw of the colt of a donkey, I have destroyed them, and I have struck down a thousand men.”
17 Quand il eut fini de parler, il jeta loin de lui la mâchoire: c'est pourquoi on a donné à cet endroit lenom de Ramat-Lehi.	17 And when he had completed these words, singing, he threw the jawbone from his hand. And called the name of that place Ramath-Lehi, which is translated as ‘the elevation of the jawbone.’
18 Comme il souffrait d'une soif ardente, il invoqua Yahvé en disant: "C'est toi qui as opéré cettegrande victoire par la main de ton serviteur, et maintenant, faudra-t-il que je meure de soif et que je tombe auxmains des incirconcis?"	18 And being very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, and he said: “You have given, to the hand of your servant, this very great salvation and victory. But see that I am dying of thirst, and so I will fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.”
19 Alors Dieu fendit le bassin qui est à Lehi et il en sortit de l'eau. Samson but, ses esprits lui revinrentet il se ranima. C'est pourquoi on a donné le nom de En-ha-Qoré à cette source, qui existe encore à Lehi.	19 And so the Lord opened a large tooth in the jawbone of the donkey, and water went out from it. And having drank it, his spirit was revived, and he recovered his strength. For this reason, the name of that place was called ‘the Spring called forth from the jawbone,’ even to the present day.
20 Samson fut juge en Israël à l'époque des Philistins, pendant vingt ans.	20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.