Matthew 11:17 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁷ say, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not,––we sang a lament, and ye beat not the breast.

⁴⁰ And all the people came up after him, the people themselves also, playing with flutes, and rejoicing with great joy,––so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

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.

²⁹ A song, shall ye have, As in the night of hallowing a festival,––And gladness of heart, As when one goeth with the flute to enter, Into the mountain of Yahweh, Unto the Rock of Israel.

¹⁷ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Consider ye diligently and call for the wailing women, that they may come,––And, unto the wise women, send ye, that they may come; ¹⁸ Yea let them make haste, and lift up over us a wailing,––That our eyes, may run down, with tears, And, our eyelashes, stream down with water; –– ¹⁹ Yea, a voice of wailing, hath been heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! We have turned very pale, For we have left the land, For they have cast down our habitations. ²⁰ For hear, O ye women, the word of Yahweh, And let your ear take in the word of his mouth,––And teach your daughters a wail, Yea, each woman––her neighbour, a dirge:––

⁴ Again, will I build thee and thou shalt be built, thou virgin, Israel,––Again, shalt thou deck thyself with thy timbrels, And go forth in the dance of them that make merry:

¹⁵ And Jesus said unto them,––Can, the sons of the bridechamber, mourn, so long as, the bridegroom, is, with them? But days will come, when the bridegroom, shall be taken from them, and, then, will they fast.

²³ And, Jesus, coming, into the house of the ruler, and seeing the flute–players and the multitude in confusion, was saying:

²⁵ But his elder son was in a field; and, as, in coming, he drew near unto the house, he heard music and dancing,––

¹⁹ For, though free from all, unto all, myself, I enslaved,––that, the larger number, I might win: ²⁰ Therefore became I, to the Jews, as, a Jew,––that, Jews, I might win; to them who were under law, as, under law, not being, myself, under law,––that, them who were under law, I might win; ²¹ To them who were without law, as, without law,––not being without law to God, but lawfully subject to Christ,––that I might win them who were without law. ²² I became, unto the weak, weak,––that, the weak, I might win; ––to all men, have I become all things, that, by all means, some, I might save. ²³ But, all things, am I doing, for the sake of the glad–message, that a joint–partaker thereof, I may become.