Cantar de los Cantares 3
1 En mi lecho, de noche, busqué 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 found him not; I called him, but he listened not to me.
2 Me levantaré, pues, y giraré por la ciudad, por las calles y las plazas; buscaré al que ama mi alma. Le busqué y no le 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 encontraron los guardias que hacen la ronda por la ciudad: “¿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 Apenas me había apartado de ellos, encontré al que ama mi alma. Lo así y no lo soltaré hasta introducirlo en la casa de mi madre, y en la cámara de la que me dio el ser.
[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 Os conjuro, oh hijas de Jerusalén, por las gacelas y las ciervas del campo, que no despertéis ni inquietéis a la amada, hasta que ella 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 cosa es esta que sube del desierto, como columna de humo perfumada de mirra e incienso 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 Mirad, es su litera, la de Salomón; sesenta valientes la rodean, 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 manejan la espada, son adiestrados para el combate; todos llevan la espada ceñida, a causa de 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 De maderas del Líbano se hizo el rey Salomón un cenáculo.
King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.
10 Hizo de plata sus columnas, de oro el dosel, de púrpura su asiento; su interior está recamado de 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 Salid, oh hijas de Sión, a contemplar al rey Salomón con la corona que le tejió su madre en el día de sus desposorios, 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.
