22 And if you ask yourself,
    ‘Why has this happened to me?’–
it is because of your many sins
    that your skirts have been torn off
    and your body ill-treated.
23 Can an Ethiopian[a] change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    who are accustomed to doing evil.

24 ‘I will scatter you like chaff
    driven by the desert wind.

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Footnotes

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