[和合本] 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。’
[新标点] 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。
[和合修] 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。’
[新译本] 他们好像小孩子坐在巿中心，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。’
[当代修] 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。’
[现代修] 他们正像坐在街头上玩耍的孩子，其中的一群向另一群喊说：‘我们为你们吹婚礼乐曲，你们不跳舞！我们唱丧礼哀歌，你们也不哭泣！’
[吕振中] 他们就像在市场上的小孩子，彼此呼叫说：‘我们向你们吹笛，你们也不跳舞；我们向你们哀号，你们也不哭泣’。
[思高本] 他们相似坐在街上的儿童，彼此呼唤说：我们给你们吹笛，你们却不跳舞；我们唱哀歌，你们却不悲哭。
[文理本] 似童子坐于市、相呼曰、我吹龠、尔不踊、我举哀、尔不哭、
[GNT] They are like children sitting in the marketplace. One group shouts to the other, 'We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn't dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn't cry!'
[BBE] They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.
[KJV] 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.
[NKJV] "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.'
[KJ21] 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.'
[NASB] 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.'
[NRSV] 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 wailed, and you did not weep.'
[WEB] 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.'
[ESV] 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.'
[NIV] They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: "'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.'
[NIrV] They are like children sitting in the market place and calling out to each other. They say, " 'We played a flute for you. But you didn't dance. We sang a funeral song. But you didn't cry.'
[HCSB] 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!
[CSB] 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!
[AMP] They are like little children sitting in the marketplace, calling to one another and saying, We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we sang dirges and wailed [playing funeral], and you did not weep.
[NLT] 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.'
[YLT] they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!