Judges 15
1 But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber, but her father would not allow him to go in.
Di lì a qualche tempo, verso la mietitura del grano, Sansone andò a visitare sua moglie, le portò un capretto, e disse: “Voglio entrare in camera da mia moglie”. Ma il padre di lei non gli permise d’entrare,
2 And her father said, I truly thought that thou had utterly hated her, therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
e gli disse: “Io credevo sicuramente che tu l’avessi presa in odio, e però l’ho data al tuo compagno; la sua sorella minore non e più bella di lei? Prendila dunque in sua vece”.
3 And Samson said to them, This time I shall be blameless in regard of the Philistines when I do them a mischief.
Sansone rispose loro: “Questa volta, non avrò colpa verso i Filistei, quando farò loro del male”.
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
E Sansone se ne andò e acchiappò trecento sciacalli; prese pure delle fiaccole, volse coda contro coda, e mise una fiaccola in mezzo, fra le due code.
5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.
Poi accese le fiaccole, dette la via agli sciacalli per i campi di grano de’ Filistei, e brucio i covoni ammassati, il grano tuttora in piedi, e perfino gli uliveti.
6 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
E i Filistei chiesero: “Chi ha fatto questo?” Fu risposto: “Sansone, il genero del Thimneo, perché questi gli ha preso la moglie, e l’ha data al compagno di lui”. E i Filistei salirono e diedero alle fiamme lei e suo padre.
7 And Samson said to them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
E Sansone disse loro: “Giacché agite a questo modo, siate certi che non avrò posa finché non mi sia vendicato di voi”.
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
E li sbaragliò interamente, facendone un gran macello. Poi discese, e si ritirò nella caverna della roccia d’Etam.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Allora i Filistei salirono, si accamparono in Giuda, e si distesero fino a Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they said, We come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.
Gli uomini di Giuda dissero loro: “Perché siete saliti contro di noi?” Quelli risposero: “Siam saliti per legare Sansone; per fare a lui quello che ha fatto a noi”.
11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Know thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that thou have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
E tremila uomini di Giuda scesero alla caverna della roccia d’Etam, e dissero a Sansone: “Non sai tu che i Filistei sono nostri dominatori? Che è dunque questo che ci hai fatto?” Ed egli rispose loro: “Quello che hanno fatto a me, l’ho fatto a loro”.
12 And they said to him, We have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
E quelli a lui: “Noi siam discesi per legarti e darti nelle mani de’ Filistei”. Sansone replicò loro: “Giuratemi che voi stessi non mi ucciderete”.
13 And they spoke to him, saying, No, but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, but truly we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
Quelli risposero: “No, ti legheremo soltanto, e ti daremo nelle loro mani; ma certamente non ti metteremo a morte”. E lo legarono con due funi nuove, e lo fecero uscire dalla caverna.
14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
Quando giunse a Lehi, i Filistei gli si fecero incontro con grida di gioia; ma lo spirito dell’Eterno lo investì, e le funi che aveva alle braccia divennero come fili di lino a cui si appicchi il fuoco; e i legami gli caddero dalle mani.
15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men with it.
E, trovata una mascella d’asino ancor fresca, stese la mano, l’afferrò, e uccise con essa mille uomini.
16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have smitten a thousand men.
E Sansone disse: “Con una mascella d’asino, un mucchio! due mucchi! Con una mascella d’asino ho ucciso mille uomini!”
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.
Quand’ebbe finito di parlare, gettò via di mano la mascella, e chiamò quel luogo Ramath-Lehi.
18 And he was very thirsty, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou have given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant, and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Poi ebbe gran sete; e invocò l’Eterno, dicendo: “Tu hai concesso questa gran liberazione per mano del tuo servo; e ora, dovrò io morir di sete e cader nelle mani degli incirconcisi?”
19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out there. And when he had drunk his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
Allora Iddio fendé la roccia concava ch’è a Lehi, e ne uscì dell’acqua. Sansone bevve, il suo spirito si rianimò, ed egli riprese vita. Donde il nome di En-Hakkore dato a quella fonte, che esiste anche al dì d’oggi a Lehi.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Sansone fu giudice d’Israele, al tempo de’ Filistei, per vent’anni.
