Luke 7:32

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 11:16-19 : 16 `And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades, 17 and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast. 18 `For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon; 19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'
  • Prov 17:16 : 16 Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
  • Isa 28:9-9 : 9 By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts, 10 For rule `is' on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, 11 For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people. 12 Unto whom He hath said, `This `is' the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear, 13 And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
  • Isa 29:11-12 : 11 And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I am not able, for it `is' sealed;' 12 And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have not known books.'
  • Jer 5:3-5 : 3 Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back. 4 And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God. 5 I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.
  • Zech 8:5 : 5 And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Matt 11:15-20
    6 verses
    93%

    15 he who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.

    16 `And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,

    17 and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.

    18 `For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon;

    19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

    20 Then began he to reproach the cities in which were done most of his mighty works, because they did not reform.

  • Luke 7:31
    82%

    31 And the Lord said, `To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

  • Luke 7:33-34
    2 verses
    75%

    33 `For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

    34 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

  • Matt 21:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31 which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

    32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.

  • Luke 5:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33 And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications -- in like manner also those of the Pharisees -- but thine do eat and drink?'

    34 And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?

  • Ezek 33:32
    71%

    32 And lo, thou `art' to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them.

  • Matt 9:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 Then come to him do the disciples of John, saying, `Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?'

    15 And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

  • 1 Cor 7:30
    70%

    30 and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;

  • Luke 6:25
    70%

    25 `Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

  • Luke 13:26
    70%

    26 then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;

  • Luke 7:24-25
    2 verses
    69%

    24 And the messengers of John having gone away, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John: `What have ye gone forth to the wilderness to look on? a reed by the wind shaken?

    25 but what have ye gone forth to see? a man in soft garments clothed? lo, they in splendid apparellings, and living in luxury, are in the houses of kings!

  • Mark 2:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18 And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?'

    19 And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

  • Matt 22:3
    69%

    3 and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

  • Isa 5:12
    69%

    12 And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.

  • Matt 11:7
    69%

    7 And as they are going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, `What went ye out to the wilderness to view? -- a reed shaken by the wind?

  • Hos 7:14
    69%

    14 And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

  • John 7:36
    69%

    36 what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

  • Isa 24:7
    69%

    7 Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.

  • Lam 5:15
    69%

    15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

  • Luke 14:7
    68%

    7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

  • Matt 8:12
    68%

    12 but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

  • Luke 3:7
    68%

    7 Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, `Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath?

  • Luke 23:28
    68%

    28 and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

  • John 16:20
    68%

    20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

  • Matt 7:6
    68%

    6 `Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

  • Luke 13:28
    67%

    28 `There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

  • Zech 7:6
    67%

    6 When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh `months' -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast `to' Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?

  • Jer 7:27
    67%

    27 And thou hast spoken unto them all these words, And they do not hearken to thee, And thou hast called unto them, And they do not answer thee.

  • Luke 6:46
    67%

    46 `And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

  • Job 21:12
    67%

    12 They lift `themselves' up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.

  • Zech 7:13
    67%

    13 And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

  • Jas 4:9
    67%

    9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

  • Jer 31:13
    67%

    13 Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

  • John 3:11
    67%

    11 `Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

  • Isa 58:3
    67%

    3 `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.

  • Matt 3:8
    67%

    8 bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

  • Mark 5:38
    67%

    38 and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing;

  • Luke 6:21
    67%

    21 `Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

  • Luke 5:36
    67%

    36 And he spake also a simile unto them -- `No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that `is' from the new.