Cantar de los Cantares 3
1 Por las noches en mi cama buscaba al que ama mi alma. Lo busqué, Pero no lo hallé.
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he listened not to me.
2 Me levantaré ahora e iré por la ciudad, Por las calles y por las plazas. ¡Debo hallar al que ama mi alma! Lo busqué, Pero no lo hallé.
I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the marketplaces, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
3 Me hallaron los guarda que rondan la ciudad. ¿Vieron al que ama mi alma?
The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. [I said], Have you seen him whom my soul loves?
4 Apenas pasé de allí, Hallé al que ama mi alma. Me agarré de él y no lo dejé, Hasta que lo introduje en la casa de mi madre, En la habitación de la que me concibió.
[It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5 Las conjuro, oh hijas de Jerusalén, Por las gacelas y por los venados del campo, Que no despierten al amor Ni lo hagan velar hasta que quiera.
I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that you rouse not nor awake [my] love, until he please.
6 ¿Qué es esto que sube del desierto como columnas de humo, Perfumado con mirra e incienso Y con todos los aromas del mercader?
Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?
7 Mira, la litera de Salomón, Escoltada por 60 valientes de entre los héroes de Israel.
Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.
8 Todos ellos empuñan espada. Son expertos en la batalla. Cada uno tiene su espada en su cintura Por los peligros de la noche.
They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man [has] his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.
9 El rey Salomón hizo para él una litera con madera del Líbano.
King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.
10 Hizo sus columnas de plata, Su respaldo de oro, Su asiento de púrpura, Su interior tapizado con amor por las hijas de Jerusalén.
He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 ¡Salgan, oh hijas de Sion, Y contemplen al rey Salomón, Con la diadema que le colocó su madre el día de su boda, El día del gozo de su corazón!
Go forth, you daughters of Sion, and behold king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him, in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
