Cantar de los Cantares 3
1 Por las noches busqué en mi cama al que ama mi alma; le busqué, y no le hallé.
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
2 Ahora pues levantarme he, y rodearé por la ciudad: por las calles, y por las plazas buscaré al que ama mi alma: le busqué, y no le hallé.
I said, I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
3 Halláronme las guardas que rondan por la ciudad, y les pregunté, diciendo: ¿Habéis visto al que ama mi alma?
The watchmen who go about the city found me. I said, Did ye see him whom my soul loves?
4 Pasando de ellos un poco, luego hallé al que ama mi alma: trabé de él, y no le dejé, hasta que le metí en casa de mi madre, y a la cámara de la que me engendró.
It was but a little that I passed from them when I found him whom my soul loves. 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 who conceived me.
5 Yo os conjuro, o! hijas de Jerusalem, por las gamas, o por las ciervas del campo, que no despertéis, ni hagáis velar a mi amor, hasta que él quiera.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake love, until it please.
6 ¿Quién es esta que sube del desierto como varas de humo, sahumada de mirra y de encienso, y de todos polvos aromáticos?
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
7 He aquí que la cama de Salomón sesenta fuertes la cercan, de los fuertes de Israel.
Behold, it is the litter of Solomon. Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
8 Todos ellos tienen espadas, diestros en la guerra: cada uno su espada sobre su muslo por los temores en las noches.
They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword upon his thigh, because of fear in the night.
9 El rey Salomón se hizo un tálamo de madera del Líbano.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.
10 Sus columnas hizo de plata, su solado de oro, su cielo de grana, su interior solado de amor por las hijas de Jerusalem.
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the seat thereof of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Salíd, o! hijas de Sión, y ved al rey Salomón con la corona con que le coronó su madre el día de su desposorio, y 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 has crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
