22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the multitude of thine iniquities are thy skirts [a]discovered and thy heels made bare.

23 Can the black Moor change his skin? or the leopard his spots, then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil?

24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that is taken away with the South wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:22 The cloak of hypocrisy shall be pulled off, and thy shame seen.

22 And if you ask yourself,
    “Why has this happened to me?”(A)
it is because of your many sins(B)
    that your skirts have been torn off(C)
    and your body mistreated.(D)
23 Can an Ethiopian[a] change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    who are accustomed to doing evil.(E)

24 “I will scatter you like chaff(F)
    driven by the desert wind.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:23 Hebrew Cushite (probably a person from the upper Nile region)