Giudici 15

BIBBIA CEI 2008	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Dopo qualche tempo, nei giorni della mietitura del grano, Sansone andò a visitare sua moglie, le portò un capretto e disse: "Voglio entrare da mia moglie nella camera". Ma il padre di lei non gli permise di entrare	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 e gli disse: "Credevo proprio che tu l'avessi ripudiata e perciò l'ho data al tuo compagno; la sua sorella minore non è più bella di lei? Prendila dunque al suo posto".	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 Ma Sansone rispose loro: "Questa volta non sarò colpevole verso i Filistei, se farò loro del male".	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 Sansone se ne andò e catturò trecento volpi; prese delle fiaccole, legò coda e coda e mise una fiaccola fra le due code.	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 Poi accese le fiaccole, lasciò andare le volpi per i campi di grano dei Filistei e bruciò i covoni ammassati, il grano tuttora in piedi e perfino le vigne e gli oliveti.	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 I Filistei chiesero: "Chi ha fatto questo?". Fu risposto: "Sansone, il genero dell'uomo di Timna, perché costui gli ha ripreso la moglie e l'ha data al compagno di lui". I Filistei salirono e bruciarono tra le fiamme lei e suo padre.	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 Sansone disse loro: "Poiché agite in questo modo, io non la smetterò finché non mi sia vendicato di voi".	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 Li batté l'uno sull'altro, facendone una grande strage. Poi scese e si ritirò nella caverna della rupe di Etam.	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 Allora i Filistei vennero, si accamparono in Giuda e fecero una scorreria fino a Lechi.	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 Gli uomini di Giuda dissero loro: "Perché siete venuti contro di noi?". Quelli risposero: "Siamo venuti per legare Sansone; per fare a lui quello che ha fatto a noi".	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 Tremila uomini di Giuda scesero alla caverna della rupe di Etam e dissero a Sansone: "Non sai che i Filistei ci dominano? Che cosa ci hai fatto?". Egli rispose loro: "Quello che hanno fatto a me, io l'ho fatto a loro".	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 Gli dissero: "Siamo scesi per legarti e metterti nelle mani dei Filistei". Sansone replicò loro: "Giuratemi che voi non mi colpirete".	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 Quelli risposero: "No, ti legheremo soltanto e ti metteremo nelle loro mani; ma certo non ti uccideremo". Lo legarono con due funi nuove e lo fecero salire dalla rupe.	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 Mentre giungeva a Lechi e i Filistei gli venivano incontro con grida di gioia, lo spirito del Signore lo investì; le funi che aveva alle braccia divennero come fili di lino bruciacchiati dal fuoco e i legami gli caddero disfatti dalle mani.	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 Trovò allora una mascella d'asino ancora fresca, stese la mano, l'afferrò e uccise con essa mille uomini.	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 Sansone disse: "Con la mascella dell'asino, li ho ben macellati! Con la mascella dell'asino, ho colpito mille uomini!".	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'ebbe finito di parlare, gettò via la mascella; per questo, quel luogo fu chiamato Ramat-Lechi.	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 Poi ebbe gran sete e invocò il Signore dicendo: "Tu hai concesso questa grande vittoria mediante il tuo servo; ora dovrò morir di sete e cader nelle mani dei non circoncisi?".	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 Allora Dio spaccò la roccia concava che è a Lechi e ne scaturì acqua. Sansone bevve, il suo spirito si rianimò ed egli riprese vita. Perciò quella fonte fu chiamata En-Korè: essa esiste a Lechi fino ad oggi.	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 Sansone fu giudice d'Israele, al tempo dei Filistei, per venti anni.	20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.