Cantar de los Cantares 3

BIBLIA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 En mi lecho, por las noches, he buscado al amor de mi alma. Busquéle y no le hallé.	1 Bride: "On my bed, throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him."
2 Me levantaré, pues, y recorreré la ciudad. Por las calles y las plazas buscaré al amor de mi alma. Busquéle y no le hallé.	2 "I will rise up, and I will circle through the city. Through the side streets and thoroughfares, I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him."
3 Los centinelas me encontraron, los que hacen la ronda en la ciudad: «¿Habéis visto al amor de mi alma?»	3 "The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”"
4 Apenas habíalos pasado, cuando encontré al amor de mi alma. Le aprehendí y no le soltaré hasta que le haya introducido en la casa de mi madre, en la alcoba de la que me concibió.	4 "When I had passed by them a little, I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not release him, until I would bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who bore me."
5 Yo os conjuro, hijas de Jerusalén, por las gacelas, por las ciervas del campo, no despertéis, no desveléis al amor, hasta que le plazca.	5 Groom to Chorus: "I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the does and the stags of the open field, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills."
6 ¿Qué es eso que sube del desierto, cual columna de humo sahumado de mirra y de incienso, de todo polvo de aromas exóticos?	6 Chorus to Groom: "Who is she, who ascends through the desert, like a staff of smoke from the aromatics of myrrh, and frankincense, and every powder of the perfumer?"
7 Ved la litera de Salomón. Sesenta valientes en torno a ella, la flor de los valientes de Israel:	7 Chorus to Bride: "Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,"
8 todos diestros en la espada, veteranos en la guerra. Cada uno lleva su espada al cinto, por las alarmas de la noche.	8 "all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night."
9 El rey Salomón se ha hecho un palanquín de madera del Líbano.	9 Bride to Chorus: "King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon."
10 Ha hecho de plata sus columnas, de oro su respaldo, de púrpura su asiento; su interior, tapizado de amor por las hijas de Jerusalén.	10 "He made its columns of silver, the reclining place of gold, the ascent of purple; the middle he covered well, out of charity for the daughters of Jerusalem."
11 Salid a contemplar, hijas de Sión, a Salomón el rey, con la diadema con que le coronó su madre el día de sus bodas, el día del gozo de su corazón.	11 "O daughters of Zion, go forth and see king Solomon with the diadem with which his mother crowned him, on the day of his espousal, on the day of the rejoicing of his heart."