Cantar de los Cantares 8
1 ¡Oh quién te me diese como hermano que mamó los pechos de mi madre; de modo que te halle yo fuera, y te bese, y no me menosprecien!
Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.
2 ¡Que yo te llevase, que yo te metiese en casa de mi madre; que me enseñases, que te hiciese beber vino adobado del mosto de mis granadas!
I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.
3 Su izquierda esté debajo de mi cabeza, y su derecha me abrace.
His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.
4 Os conjuro, oh doncellas de Jerusalén, que no despertéis, ni hagáis velar al amor, hasta que él quiera.
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
5 ¿Quién es ésta que sube del desierto, recostada sobre su amado? Debajo de un manzano te desperté; allí tuvo tu madre dolores, allí tuvo dolores la que te dio a luz.
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
6 Ponme como un sello sobre tu corazón, como un signo sobre tu brazo; porque fuerte es como la muerte el amor; duro como el sepulcro el celo; sus brasas, brasas de fuego, fuerte llama. (Sheol h7585)
Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames. (Sheol h7585)
7 Las muchas aguas no podrán apagar el amor, ni lo ahogarán los ríos. Si diese el hombre toda la hacienda de su casa por este amor, de cierto lo menospreciarán.
Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
8 Tenemos una pequeña hermana, que aún no tiene pechos. ¿Qué haremos a nuestra hermana cuando de ella se hablare?
We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?
9 Si ella es muro, edificaremos sobre él un palacio de plata; y si fuere puerta, la guarneceremos con tablas de cedro.
If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
10 Yo soy muro, y mis pechos como torres, desde que fui en sus ojos como la que halla paz.
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.
11 Salomón tuvo una viña en Baal-hamón, la cual entregó a guardas, cada uno de los cuales debía traer mil monedas de plata por su fruto.
Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.
12 Mi viña, que es mía, está delante de mí; las mil serán tuyas, oh Salomón, y doscientas, de los que guardan su fruto.
My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
13 Oh tú la que moras en los huertos, los compañeros escuchan tu voz; házmela oír.
You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.
14 Corre, amado mío; y sé semejante al gamo, o al cervatillo, sobre las montañas de las especias.
Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.
