What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?
Matthew 11:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like little children sitting in the marketplaces who call to their playmates, American Standard Version (1901) But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows Common English Bible “To what will I compare this generation? It is like a child sitting in the marketplaces calling out to others, Catholic Public Domain Version But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place. |
What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?
We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t mourn!
Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.
He also said in his teaching, ‘Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who want greetings in the marketplaces,
And he said, ‘With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it?
‘Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
He said, therefore, ‘What is the kingdom of God like, and what can I compare it to?