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22 If you say to yourself:
    “Why have these things happened to me?”
For your great guilt your skirts are stripped away
    and you are violated.(A)
23 Can Ethiopians change their skin,
    leopards their spots?
As easily would you be able to do good,
    accustomed to evil as you are.(B)
24 I will scatter them like chaff that flies
    on the desert wind.(C)

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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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Footnotes

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