Jeremiah 13:22-24

Common English Bible

²² And when you ask yourself,
    Why have all these things happened to me?
        it is because of your many sins
        that you have been stripped and violated.
²³ Can a Cushite change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    when doing evil comes so naturally.
²⁴ So I will scatter you^[a] like straw
    that is blown away by the desert winds.