22 If you (A)say in your heart,
(B)Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the (C)magnitude of your wrongdoing
(D)Your skirts have been removed
And your [a]heels have suffered violence.
23 (E)Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you as well can (F)do good
Who are accustomed to doing evil.
24 Therefore I will (G)scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert (H)wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:22 I.e., a euphemism for private parts

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)