Luke 7:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² They are like little children sitting in the marketplace, calling to one another and saying, We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we sang dirges and wailed [playing funeral], and you did not weep.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² 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.

Common English Bible

³² They are like children sitting in the marketplace calling out to each other, ‘We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song and you didn’t cry.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² They are like children sitting in the marketplace, talking with one another, and saying: 'We sang to you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not weep.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² They are like to children sitting in the marketplace, and speaking one to another, and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.

Luke 7:32 Cross References

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?

Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Matthew 20:3

When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Luke 7:31

“To what, then, will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Luke 7:33

“For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’;