Jeremiah 13:22-24

International Standard Version

²² When you say to yourselves,
    ‘Why have all these things happened to me?’
It’s because of the extent of your iniquity
    that your skirt has been lifted up,
        and your heels have suffered violence.^[a]
23 Can an Ethiopian change his skin,
    or a leopard his spots?
Then you who are trained to do evil
    will also be able to do good.
²⁴ I’ll scatter them like chaff
    blown away by a desert wind.