Scriptures

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.

³² They are like children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends, ‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t weep.’

³² They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, ’We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

³² They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying: ’We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not weep.’