Matthew 11:17 - 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.

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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.'

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 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Genesis 50:10

And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played with pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy: and the earth rang with the noise of their cry.

Isaiah 30:29

You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified solemnity, and joy 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

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

Matthew 11:16

But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

Matthew 11:18

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

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Matthew 9:23

And when Jesus was come into the house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the multitude making a rout,

Luke 15:25

Now his elder son was in the field, and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing:

Luke 23:27

And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented him.

Luke 7:32

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.

Luke 8:52

And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not; the maid is not dead, but sleepeth.