Matthew 11:17 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we wailed dirges [playing funeral], and you did not mourn and beat your breasts and weep aloud.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ ‘We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song and you didn’t mourn.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ who, calling out to their companions, say: 'We played music for you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not mourn.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁷ “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

Matthew 11:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 50:10

And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

Isaiah 30:29

Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Matthew 11:16

But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber 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.

Matthew 9:23

And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,

Luke 15:25

Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

Luke 23:27

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

Luke 7:32

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.

Luke 8:52

And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.