Jeremiah 13:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²¹ What will you say when they set as head over you
    those whom you have trained
    to be your allies?
Will not pangs take hold of you,
    like those of a woman in labour?
²² And if you say in your heart,
    ‘Why have these things come upon me?’
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that your skirts are lifted up,
    and you are violated.
²³ Can Ethiopians^[a] change their skin
    or leopards their spots?
Then also you can do good
    who are accustomed to do evil.