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22 
“And if you [wonder and] say in your heart,
‘Why have these things happened to me?’
It is because of the greatness and nature of your sin
That your skirts have been [a]pulled away [subjecting you to public disgrace]
And [like a barefoot slave] your heels have been wounded.
23 
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to evil and even trained to do it.
24 
“Therefore I will scatter you like drifting straw
[Driven away] by the desert wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:22 Using the expression for the violation of a woman, the writer describes how the Babylonians would deal with Judah.

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