Matthew 11:17 - New International Version (Anglicised)

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

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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.

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.

Matthew 11:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 50:10

When they reached the threshing-floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.

Isaiah 30:29

And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

I will build you up again, and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful.

Matthew 11:16

‘To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the market-places and calling out to others:

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon.”

Matthew 9:15

Jesus answered, ‘How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus entered the synagogue leader’s house and saw the noisy crowd and the people playing pipes,

Luke 15:25

‘Meanwhile, the elder son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 23:27

A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling out to each other: ‘ “We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.”

Luke 8:52

Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. ‘Stop wailing,’ Jesus said. ‘She is not dead but asleep.’