Cantar de los Cantares 3
1 En mi lecho, de noche, busqué al que ama mi alma; le busqué y no le hallé.
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
2 Me levantaré, pues, y giraré por la ciudad, por las calles y las plazas; buscaré al que ama mi alma. Le busqué y no le hallé.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
3 Me encontraron los guardias que hacen la ronda por la ciudad: “¿Habéis visto al que ama mi alma?”
The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
4 Apenas me había apartado de ellos, encontré al que ama mi alma. Lo así y no lo soltaré hasta introducirlo en la casa de mi madre, y en la cámara de la que me dio el ser.
[It was] but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5 Os conjuro, oh hijas de Jerusalén, por las gacelas y las ciervas del campo, que no despertéis ni inquietéis a la amada, hasta que ella quiera.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.
6 ¿Qué cosa es esta que sube del desierto, como columna de humo perfumada de mirra e incienso con todos los aromas del mercader?
Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
7 Mirad, es su litera, la de Salomón; sesenta valientes la rodean, de entre los héroes de Israel.
Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; sixty valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel.
8 Todos ellos manejan la espada, son adiestrados para el combate; todos llevan la espada ceñida, a causa de los peligros de la noche.
They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
9 De maderas del Líbano se hizo el rey Salomón un cenáculo.
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
10 Hizo de plata sus columnas, de oro el dosel, de púrpura su asiento; su interior está recamado de amor, por las hijas de Jerusalén.
He made its pillars [of] silver, the bottom of it [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple, the midst of it being paved [with] love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Salid, oh hijas de Sión, a contemplar al rey Salomón con la corona que le tejió su madre en el día de sus desposorios, el día del gozo de su corazón.
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
