KJV King James Version
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
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Luke 7:32
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
WEB World English Bible
They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’
ASV American Standard Version
They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!
Surrounding context — Luke 7
29 And all the people that heard [him], and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὅμοιοίG3664 · homoioslikeεἰσινG1510 · eimito beπαιδίοιςG3813 · paidionchildτοῖςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongἀγορᾷG58 · agoramarketplaceκαθημένοιςG2521 · kathēmaito sitκαὶG2532 · kaiandπροσφωνοῦσινG4377 · prosphōneōto call to/summonἀλλήλοιςG240 · allēlōnone anotherἃG3739 · hos, hēwhichλέγει·G3004 · legōto sayηὐλήσαμενG832 · auleōto play the fluteὑμῖν,G4771 · suyouκαὶG2532 · kaiandοὐκG3756 · ounoὠρχήσασθε·G3738 · orcheomaito danceἐθρηνήσαμενG2354 · thrēneōto lamentκαὶG2532 · kaiandοὐκG3756 · ounoἐκλαύσατε.G2799 · klaiōto weep
Cross-references
Matthew 11:16-19But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,Jeremiah 5:3-5O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.Proverbs 17:16Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?Isaiah 28:9-13Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.Isaiah 29:11-12And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:Zechariah 8:5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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