Matthew 11:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶“To what can I compare the people living today? They’re^[a] like little children who sit in the marketplaces and shout to each other,

¹⁷‘A wedding song we played for you,
the dance you all did scorn.
A woeful dirge we chanted, too,
but then you would not mourn.’

¹⁸Because John didn’t come eating or drinking, yet people^[b] say, ‘He has a demon!’

Matthew 11:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:

¹⁷“‘We played the pipe for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not mourn.’

¹⁸For John came neither eating^(A) nor drinking,^(B) and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

International Standard Version (ISV)

New International Version (NIV)