Cantar de los cantares 8:8-14

8 Los hermanos de la joven
Tenemos una hermanita
demasiado joven para tener pechos.
¿Qué haremos con nuestra hermana
si alguien pide casarse con ella?

9 Si es virgen como un muro,
la protegeremos con una torre de plata;
pero si es promiscua como una puerta que gira,
le trabaremos la puerta con una barra de cedro.

10 La joven
Yo era virgen como un muro,
ahora mis pechos son como torres.
Cuando mi amante me mira
se deleita con lo que ve.

11 Salomón tiene un viñedo en Baal-hamón
y lo renta a arrendatarios.
Cada uno de ellos paga mil monedas de plata
por cosechar la fruta.

12 Sin embargo, yo soy la dueña de mi viñedo y yo decido a quién dárselo,
y Salomón no tiene que pagar mil monedas de plata;
pero yo daré doscientas monedas
a quienes cuiden de sus vides.

13 El joven
Amada mía, tú que te entretienes en los jardines,
tus compañeros tienen la dicha de oír tu voz.
¡Déjame oírla también!

14 La joven
¡Ven conmigo, mi amor! Sé como una gacela,
o como un venado joven sobre los montes de especias.

Cantar de los cantares 8:8-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 8

This chapter begins with an ardent wish of the church for a free and intimate converse with Christ; declaring what she would do to him, and for him, should she have such an interview with him, So 8:1,2; what familiarity should be between them, So 8:3; charging the daughters of Jerusalem not to give him any disturbance, So 8:4. Upon which they inquire who she was that was in such a posture they saw her in, So 8:5; when the church, instead of giving them an answer, says some things concerning her beloved, on whom they saw her leaning; and makes some requests to him for more nearness to him, and manifestations of his love to her; urged from the strength her love and affections to him, which was invincible, So 8:6,7. Next follows a speech of the church about her little sister; expressing a concern for her, and what she would do to her and with her, So 8:8,9; and the answer of the little sister, declaring what she, was, and what she enjoyed, So 8:10; then the words of the church again, concerning her husband's vineyard; the place, keepers, and profit of it, So 8:11,12. And the chapter, and with it the Song, is concluded with a request of Christ to the church, that he might hear her voice, So 8:13; and with a petition of hers to him, that he would come quickly to her, So 8:14.