Cantar de los Cantares 3
1 Por las noches busqué en mi cama al que ama mi alma; lo busqué, y 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, y rodearé por la ciudad; por las calles y por las plazas buscaré al que ama mi alma; lo busqué, y 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 guardas que rondan la ciudad, y les dije: ¿Habéis visto 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 Pasando de ellos un poco, hallé luego al que mi alma ama; trabé de él, y no lo dejé, hasta que lo metí en casa de mi madre, y en la cámara de la que me dio a luz.
[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 Yo os conjuro, oh doncellas de Jerusalén, por las gamas y por las ciervas del campo, que no despertéis ni hagáis velar al amor, hasta que él 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 ¿Quién es ésta que sube del desierto como varas de humo, sahumada de mirra y de incienso, y de todos los polvos aromáticos?
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 He aquí es la cama de Salomón; sesenta fuertes la rodean, de los fuertes de Israel.
Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.
8 Todos ellos tienen espadas, diestros en la guerra; cada uno su cuchillo sobre su muslo, por los temores 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 se hizo un tálamo de madera del Líbano.
King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.
10 Sus columnas hizo de plata, su solado de oro, su cielo de grana, su interior enlosado de amor, por las doncellas 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 Salid, oh doncellas de Sion, 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, 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.
