32 They are like children sitting in a market and calling to one another, and saying, We piped to you, and you did not dance; we mourned to you, and you did not weep.
Luke 7:32 Cross References - LITV
Proverbs 17:16
16 Why is there hire in a fool's hand to get wisdom, and there is no heart for it ?
Isaiah 28:9-13
9 Whom shall He teach knowledge? And to whom shall He explain the message? Those weaned from milk, those moving from breasts?
10 For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
11 For with stammering lip and another tongue, He will speak to this people;
12 to whom He said, This is the rest; cause the weary to rest. Also, This is the repose. But they willed not to hear.
13 Yet the word of Jehovah was to them, precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and stumble, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah 29:11-12
Jeremiah 5:3-5
3 O Jehovah, are not Your eyes for the truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You consumed them, yet they refused to take correction. They made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.
4 So I said, Surely they are poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of Jehovah, the ordinance of their God.
5 I will go up for myself to the great men and will speak to them. For they have known the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God. Surely these have joined in breaking the yoke; they have torn off the bonds.
Zechariah 8:5
5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
Matthew 11:16-19
16 But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the markets, and calling to their mates,
17 and saying, We piped to you, and you did not dance; we mourned to you, and you did not wail.
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon.
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a wine drinker, and a friend of tax collectors, and of sinners. And wisdom was justified by her children.