“‘ We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

‘我们向你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们向你们举哀，你们不捶胸。’

‘我们为你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们不捶胸。’

‘我们为你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们不捶胸。’

“‘我们吹娶亲的乐曲，你们不跳舞；我们唱送葬的哀歌，你们不悲伤。’

说：‘我们给你们吹笛子，你们却不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们也不捶胸。’

说：‘我们为你们吹笛，你们却不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们也不捶胸。’

我們向你們吹笛，你們不跳舞；我們向你們舉哀，你們不捶胸。

『我們為你們吹笛，你們不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們不捶胸。』

『我們為你們吹笛，你們不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們不捶胸。』

『我們吹娶親的樂曲，你們不跳舞；我們唱送葬的哀歌，你們不悲傷。』

說：‘我們給你們吹笛子，你們卻不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們也不捶胸。’

「我們向你們吹笛，你們也不跳舞；我們向你們哀號，你們也不捶胸。」

說：『我們為你們吹笛，你們卻不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們也不捶胸。』

曰、我吹籥、爾不踊、我舉哀、爾不擗、

我吹籥、爾不踊、我悲歌、爾不傷、

我向爾吹笛、而爾不躍、我向爾悲歌、而爾不哭、

「我吹笛、爾未舞；我悲歌、爾未哭。」

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

“‘ We played the flute for you. But you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song. But you didn’t become sad.’

‘ We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t mourn.’

We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t mourn!

and say,‘ We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not mourn.’

and saying:‘ We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not lament.’

and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.

We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t mourn!

And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

‘ We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

and say,‘ We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

“ To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people,to whom he has said,“ This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

Thus says the Lord of hosts:“ Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:‘ How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

And Jesus said to them,“ Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law( though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.To those outside the law I became as one outside the law( not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

“ Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.