Luke 7:32

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?

For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

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

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,