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 found him not.
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 will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
3 Halláronme las guardas que rondan por la ciudad, y les pregunté, diciendo: ¿Habéis visto al que ama mi alma?
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw you 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, but 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 that 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 charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he 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 that comes out of 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 his bed, which is Solomon’s; three score valiant men are about it, of the valiant 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 hold swords, being expert in war: every man has his sword on 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 chariot 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 covering of it of purple, the middle thereof being paved with love, for 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 you 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.
