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1 ¡Qué hermosa eres, amor mío, qué hermosa! Tus ojos, tras el velo, son como palomas. Sobre el rostro, tus negros cabellos son como rebaños de cabras que retozan en las laderas de Galaad.
1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
2 Tus dientes son tan blancos como lana de oveja recién trasquilada y lavada; son perfectos y completos.
2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
3 Como cinta escarlata son tus labios, y ¡qué bellas tus palabras! Tus mejillas, tras el velo parecen dos mitades de granadas.
3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
4 Tu cuello es como la torre de David, engalanada con los escudos de mil héroes.
4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
5 Tus pechos son dos gacelas, dos gacelas pastando entre lirios.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
6 Hasta que despunte el día y huyan las sombras, subiré yo al monte de mirra y a la colina de incienso.
6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
7 ¡Qué hermosa eres toda tú, amor mío! No tienes defectos.
7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
8 Vente conmigo, desde el Líbano, novia mía. Miraremos desde la cumbre del monte, desde la cima del monte Hermón, donde tienen su guarida los leones y merodean los leopardos.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9 Cautivaste mi corazón, hermosa mía, novia mía; me cautivaste con una sola mirada de tus ojos, con una sola cuenta de tu collar.
9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
10 Cuán dulce es tu amor, amada mía, novia mía, Cuánto mejor que el vino. Más fragante es el perfume de tu amor que las más ricas especias.
10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
11 Tus labios, amada mía, destilan miel. Sí, miel y crema escondes bajo tu lengua, y el aroma de tus vestidos es como el de los montes y cedros del Líbano.
11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12 Mi novia y mi amada es como huerto privado, como manantial vedado a los demás.
12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
13 Eres como bello huerto que produce frutas preciosas, con los más exóticos perfumes:
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
14 nardo y azafrán, cálamo aromático y canela, y perfume de todo árbol de incienso; además de mirra y áloe, y toda especia preciosa.
14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
15 Eres fuente de jardín, pozo de agua viva; refrescante como las corrientes que manan de los montes del Líbano.
15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
16 Ven, viento del norte; despierta; ven, viento del sur, sopla sobre mi huerto y llévale a mi amado su dulce perfume. Que venga él a su huerto y coma su fruto más exquisito.
16 Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Song of Songs 6:5; Song of Songs 1:15; Song of Songs 6:7; Song of Songs 2:14; Song of Songs 7:5
- 2 Song of Songs 6:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Colossians 1:4–6; 2 Peter 1:5–8; Deuteronomy 7:13–14
- 3 Song of Songs 6:7; Song of Songs 5:16; Joshua 2:18; Psalm 119:13; Proverbs 10:20–21
- 4 Song of Songs 7:4; Ephesians 4:15–16; Ezekiel 27:10–11; 1 Peter 1:5; Nehemiah 3:19
- 5 Song of Songs 7:3; Song of Songs 6:3; Song of Songs 2:16; 1 Peter 2:2; Song of Songs 8:10
- 6 Song of Songs 2:17; Song of Songs 4:14; Luke 1:78; Malachi 4:2; Isaiah 2:2
- 7 Song of Songs 1:15; Song of Songs 4:1; Ephesians 5:25–27; Jude 24; Colossians 1:22
- 8 Deuteronomy 3:9; Song of Songs 2:13; Psalm 45:10; 1 Chronicles 5:23; Isaiah 62:5
- 9 Song of Songs 5:1–2; Song of Songs 4:12; Proverbs 5:19–20; Hosea 2:19–20; 2 Corinthians 11:2
- 10 Song of Songs 1:2–4; Galatians 5:22; Song of Songs 7:6; Song of Songs 5:5; Song of Songs 1:12
- 11 Song of Songs 5:1; Hosea 14:6–7; Song of Songs 5:13; Song of Songs 7:9; Genesis 27:27
- 12 Proverbs 5:15–18; Revelation 21:27; 1 Corinthians 6:13; Isaiah 61:10–11; Revelation 7:3
- 13 Song of Songs 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:5; Song of Songs 6:11; Song of Songs 1:12; Song of Songs 8:2
- 14 Exodus 30:23; Song of Songs 4:6; Song of Songs 3:6; Song of Songs 6:2; Proverbs 7:17
- 15 John 4:10; John 7:38; John 4:14; Jeremiah 2:13; Revelation 22:1
- 16 Song of Songs 6:2; Song of Songs 5:1; Ezekiel 37:9; Song of Songs 4:13–14; 1 Peter 2:5
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For though it has now been most highly adorned with royal gifts, yet formerly it was a garden, and the signs and the remnants of this remain. A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed, by the Jews who said, We remember that that deceiver said while He was yet alive, After three days, I will rise: command, therefore, that the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Of these teeth too of the Church it is said, "Thy teeth are as a flock of shorn sheep, coming up from the bath, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them." These are they who prescribe rightly, and as they prescribe, live; who do what is written, "Let your works shine before men, that …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But who is the fountain that is sealed, or who is interpreted as being a well-spring of living water?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)