32 They are like unto the children sitting, in a market–place, and calling one to another, who say––We played the flute for you, and ye danced not, We wailed, and ye wept not.
Luke 7:32 Cross References - Rotherham
Proverbs 17:16
16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a dullard? that he who is without sense, may acquire wisdom.
Isaiah 28:9-13
9 Whom, would he teach knowledge? And, whom, would he cause to understand the message? Them who are, weaned from the milk? taken from the breasts?
10 For it is––Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line,––A little here, a little there.
11 For, with a jabbering lip, and with an alien tongue, must he speak unto this people!
12 To whom he said––This, is the rest––give ye rest to the weary, and, This, is the quietness,––But they were unwilling to hear.
13 So the word of Yahweh must be, to them––Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, A little here, a little there,––That they may go, and fall backward, and be torn, and snared, and captured.
Isaiah 29:11-12
11 And so all, vision hath become unto you, as the words of a writing that is sealed, Which is delivered unto one acquainted with writing, saying, Pray thee, read this, And he saith, I cannot, for it, is, sealed;
12 And then the writing is delivered to one unacquainted with writing, saying, Pray thee, read this, And he saith, I am not acquainted with writing.
Jeremiah 5:3-5
3 O Yahweh! thine own eyes, are they not directed to fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, Yet have they not grieved, Thou hast consumed them––They have refused to receive correction,––They have made their faces bolder than a cliff, They have refused to return.
4 And, I, said,––Only, poor people, are, they,––They act foolishly, For they know not, the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God!
5 I will betake me unto the great men, and will speak, with them! For, they, know, the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God! Yea but, they, with one accord, have, broken the yoke, torn off the bands.
Zechariah 8:5
5 And, the broadways of the city, shall be full of boys and girls,––playing in the broadways thereof.
Matthew 11:16-19
16 But, unto what, shall I liken this generation? It is, like, unto children, sitting the market–places, who, calling unto the others,
17 say, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not,––we sang a lament, and ye beat not the breast.
18 For, John, came, neither eating nor drinking, and they say––A demon, he hath!
19 The Son of Man, came, eating and drinking, and they say, Lo! a gluttonous man and a wine–drinker! a friend of, tax–collectors, and sinners! And yet wisdom hath been justified by her works.