They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other: We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t weep!

好像孩童坐在街市上，彼此呼叫说：‘我们向你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们向你们举哀，你们不啼哭。’

这正像孩童坐在街市上，彼此喊叫：‘我们为你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们不啼哭。’

这正像孩童坐在街市上，彼此喊叫：‘我们为你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们不啼哭。’

他们就如街头上戏耍的孩童——彼此呼叫，“‘我们吹娶亲的乐曲，你们不跳舞；我们唱送葬的哀歌，你们不哭泣。’

他们好像小孩子坐在市中心，彼此呼叫，说：‘我们给你们吹笛子，你们却不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们也不啼哭。’

他们就好比：孩子们坐在街市上，彼此呼叫，说：‘我们为你们吹笛，你们却不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们也不哭泣。’

好像孩童坐在街市上，彼此呼叫說：我們向你們吹笛，你們不跳舞；我們向你們舉哀，你們不啼哭。

這正像孩童坐在街市上，彼此喊叫：『我們為你們吹笛，你們不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們不啼哭。』

這正像孩童坐在街市上，彼此喊叫：『我們為你們吹笛，你們不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們不啼哭。』

他們就如街頭上戲耍的孩童——彼此呼叫，『我們吹娶親的樂曲，你們不跳舞；我們唱送葬的哀歌，你們不哭泣。』

他們好像小孩子坐在市中心，彼此呼叫，說：‘我們給你們吹笛子，你們卻不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們也不啼哭。’

他們就像坐在市場上的小孩子，彼此呼叫說：「我們向你們吹笛，你們也不跳舞；我們向你們哀號，你們也不哭泣」。

他們就好比：孩子們坐在街市上，彼此呼叫，說：『我們為你們吹笛，你們卻不跳舞；我們唱哀歌，你們也不哭泣。』

似童子坐於市、相呼曰、我吹籥、爾不踊、我舉哀、爾不哭、

比之童子、坐於市井、相呼曰、我吹籲、爾不踊、我悲歌、爾不哭、

譬童子坐於街市、相呼曰、我向爾吹笛、而爾不躍、我向爾舉哀、而爾不哭、

譬諸童子坐於市井而相呼曰：「我吹笛、爾未舞！我悲歌、爾不哭！」

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other:“‘ We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.’

They are like children sitting in the market and calling out to each other. They say,“‘ We played the flute for you. But you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song. But you didn’t cry.’

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another,“‘ We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

They are like children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends,‘ We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t weep.’

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other: We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t weep!

They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, and say,‘ We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not weep.’

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying:‘ We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not weep.’

They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another,‘ We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying,‘ We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

“ To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t mourn!For John did not come eating or drinking, and they say,‘ He has a demon!’The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say,‘ Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Lord, don’t Your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.Then I thought: They are just the poor; they have played the fool. For they don’t understand the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them.”

Why does a fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?

For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to one who can read and he is asked to read it, he will say,“ I can’t read it, because it is sealed.”And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it, he will say,“ I can’t read.”

Who is he trying to teach? Who is he trying to instruct? Infants just weaned from milk? Babies removed from the breast?For he says:“ Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there.”So He will speak to this people with stammering speech and in a foreign language.He had said to them:“ This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.Then the word of the Lord came to them:“ Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there,” so they go stumbling backward, to be broken, trapped, and captured.