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21 What will you say when He appoints over you—
And you yourself had taught them—
Former [a](A)companions to be head over you?
Will not (B)pangs seize you
Like a woman in childbirth?
22 If you (C)say in your heart,
(D)Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the (E)magnitude of your iniquity
(F)Your skirts have been uncovered
And your heels have suffered violence.
23 (G)Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can (H)do good
Who are accustomed to doing evil.

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  1. Jeremiah 13:21 Or chieftains