Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
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Bible References
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Proverbs 17:16
To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no sense?
Isaiah 28:9
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?
Isaiah 29:11
And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.
Jeremiah 5:3
Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Matthew 11:16
But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their companions,
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Zechariah 8:5
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.