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

‘ 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 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 would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?For He says,‘ Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.’ ”Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,He who said to them,“ This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” And,“ This is the resting place,” but they would not listen.So the word of the Lord to them will be,“ Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

When Jesus came into the official’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder,

This is what the Lord of armies says:“ Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the skillful women, that they may come!Have them hurry and take up a wailing for us, So that our eyes may shed tears, And our eyelids flow with water.For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:‘ How devastated we are! We are put to great shame, For we have abandoned the land Because they have torn down our homes.’ ”Now hear the word of the Lord, you women, And let your ears receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And have every woman teach her neighbor a song of mourning.

And Jesus said to them,“ The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

For though I am free from all people, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may gain more.To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the Law, I became as one under the Law, though not being under the Law myself, so that I might gain those who are under the Law;to those who are without the Law, I became as one without the Law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might gain those who are without the Law.To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some.I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

And all the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth shook at their noise.

I will build you again and you will be rebuilt, Virgin of Israel! You will take up your tambourines again, And go out to the dances of the revelers.

You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival, And gladness of heart as when one marches 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 when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.