And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very bitter lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy festival is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
And Jesus said to them, Can the companions of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling to one another, and saying, We have piped to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.