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23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good,
    who are accustomed to doing evil.

24 Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble
    that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is your lot,
    the portion of your measures from Me,
    says the Lord,
because you have forgotten Me
    and trusted in falsehood.

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23 Can an Ethiopian[a] change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    who are accustomed to doing evil.(A)

24 “I will scatter you like chaff(B)
    driven by the desert wind.(C)
25 This is your lot,
    the portion(D) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten(E) me
    and trusted in false gods.(F)

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Footnotes

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