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23 Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin
    or leopards change their spots?
    Can you do good
    when you’re taught to do wrong?
24 “I will scatter you like straw that is blown away by a desert wind.
25 This is your fate, the destiny I have planned for you,”
    declares Yahweh.
        “You have forgotten me and trusted false gods.

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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)