Luke 7:32

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:16

What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

Zechariah 8:5

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

Matthew 20:3

And going about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle.

Luke 7:31

And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

Luke 7:33

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say: He hath a devil.