Giudici 15

BIBBIA TINTORI	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Dopo un po' di tempo, essendo vicini i giorni della messe del grano, Sansone andò a veder sua moglie e le portò un capretto; ma non potè entrare secondo il solito nella camera di lei, perchè il padre di essa glielo impedì, dicendo:	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 « Pensando che tu non le volessi bene, l'ho data al tuo amico; ma c'è la sua sorella, più giovane e più bella di lei, puoi sposar questa invece della prima ».	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 Sansone gli rispose: « Fin da questo giorno non ci avrò colpa io se farò del male ai Filistei ».	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 E, andatosene, prese trecento volpi, e, legatele a due a due per le 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 fra le quali incastrò delle torce accese, diede loro la via, perchè si sbandassero in ogni parte. Queste, entrate subito tra le biade dei Filistei, appiccarono il fuoco tanto ai grani già ammassati quanto a quelli non segati, e cosi grandi furono le fiamme, che furon distrutte anche le vigne e gli uliveti.	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 Dissero allora i Filistei: « Chi ha fatto questa cosa? » Fu loro risposto: « Sansone, genero del Tamnateo; e l'ha fatta, perchè gli ha tolta la moglie per darla a un altro ». Allora i Filistei andarono e bruciarono tanto la donna come il padre di lei.	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 Ma Sansone disse loro: « Non ostante quello che avete fatto, ho ancora da prendere contro di voi delle vendetti?, avanti di darmi pace »	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 E li battè con tale sconfitta che essi stupiti mettevan la gamba sopra la coscia. Sceso di poi a dimorare nella caverna del masso 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 invasero la terra di Giuda, e si accamparono in un luogo che poi fu detto Lechi, cioè Mascella, e lì si sparse il loro esercito.	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 E quelli della tribù di Giuda dissero loro: « Perchè venite ad assalirci? » Risposero: « Siam venuti per legar Sansone, per trattarlo come ha trattato 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 Discesero allora tre mila uomini di Giuda alla spelonca del masso d'Etam, e dissero a Sansone: « Non sai che siamo sotto i Filistei? Perchè hai voluto far queste cose? » Egli rispose loro: « Ho fatto ad essi quel che han fatto a me ».	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 « Siam venuti, gli dissero, a legarti per consegnarti ai Filistei ». E Sansone: « Promettetemi con giuramento di non uccidermi ».	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 Risposero: « Non ti ammazzeremo, ti consegneremo soltanto legato ». E legatolo con due funi nuove lo portarono via dal masso di Etam.	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 Quando Sansone giunse al luogo della Mascella, siccome i Filistei gli venivano incontro gridando, lo Spirito del Signore lo investì, e come il lino suol consumarsi all'odore del fuoco, furono strappate e disciolte le funi con cui egli era legato.	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 E trovata per terra una mascella, una mandibola d'asino, la prese e con essa uccise 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 E disse: « Con una mascella d'asino li ho maciullati, colla mandibola di un asinello ho ucciso 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 Finito che ebbe di cantare queste parole, gettò via la mascella e diede a quel posto il nome di Ramat-Lechi, cioè Altura della Mascella.	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 Avendo poi gran sete, gridò al Signore, dicendo: « Tu hai operato per mezzo del tuo servo questa grande liberazione, questa vittoria, ma ecco io muoio di sete e così cadrò nelle mani degli incirconcisi ».	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 il Signore da una cavità della Mascella d'asino fece scaturire delle acque, alle quali, avendo bevuto, Sansone ristorò lo spirito e riprese forza. Per questo quel luogo fu chiamato Fontana dell'Invocante dalla mascella: essa si trova alla Mascella fino al presente.	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 giudicò Israele per vent'anni, al tempo dei Filistei.	20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.