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。’

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。’

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 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 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.’

“我该用什么来比这世代呢？这正像孩童坐在街市上向同伴呼喊：‘我们为你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们不捶胸。’约翰来了，既不吃也不喝，人们就说他是被鬼附的；人子来了，也吃也喝，他们又说这人贪食好酒，是税吏和罪人的朋友。而智慧是由它的果子来证实的。”

耶和华啊，你的眼目不是在寻找诚实吗？你击打他们，他们却不伤恸；你摧毁他们，他们仍不领受管教。他们使脸刚硬过于磐石，不肯回头。我说：“这些人实在是贫寒的，他们是愚昧的，因为不知道耶和华的作为，也不知道他们上帝的法则。我要去见尊贵的人，向他们说话，他们应该知道耶和华的作为，知道他们上帝的法则。”然而，这些人却齐心将轭折断，挣开绳索。

城里的广场满有男孩女孩在玩耍。

愚昧人既无知，为何手拿银钱去买智慧呢？

所有的默示，在你们看来都如封住的书卷，人将这书卷交给识字的人，说：“请念吧！”他说：“我不能念，因为它封住了。”又将这书卷交给不识字的人，说：“请念吧！”他说：“我不识字。”

“他要将知识指教谁呢？要向谁阐明信息呢？是向那些刚断奶的，离开母亲胸怀的吗？因为他咕哝咕哝，咕哝咕哝，唠唠叨叨，唠唠叨叨，这里一点，那里一点。”耶和华要藉嘲弄的嘴唇和外邦人的舌头，向这百姓说话。他曾对他们说：“这是安歇之所，你们要使疲乏的人得安歇，这是歇息之处。”他们却不肯听。耶和华的话对他们而言是“咕哝咕哝，咕哝咕哝，唠唠叨叨，唠唠叨叨，这里一点，那里一点”；以致他们往前行，却后仰跌倒，甚至跌伤，落入陷阱，被抓住了。