22 And if you say in your heart,
    (A)‘Why have these things come upon me?’
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that (B)your skirts are lifted up
    and you suffer violence.
23 (C)Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or (D)the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
    who are accustomed to do evil.
24 I will scatter you[a] (E)like chaff
    driven by the wind from the desert.

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  1. Jeremiah 13:24 Hebrew them

22 And if you ask yourself,
    “Why has this happened to me?”(A)
it is because of your many sins(B)
    that your skirts have been torn off(C)
    and your body mistreated.(D)
23 Can an Ethiopian[a] change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    who are accustomed to doing evil.(E)

24 “I will scatter you like chaff(F)
    driven by the desert wind.(G)

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