Jeremiah 13:21-23

Modern English Version

²¹ What will you say when He appoints over you
    those you yourself had taught to be companions to you?
Shall not sorrows take hold of you,
    as a woman in labor?
²² And if you say in your heart,
    “Why have these things come upon me?”
for the greatness of your iniquity
    your skirts have been removed
    and your heels made bare.
²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good,
    who are accustomed to doing evil.