Jeremiah 13:20-27

English Standard Version

²⁰“Lift up your eyes ^(A)and see
    those who come from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
    your beautiful flock?
²¹What will you say when they set as head over you
    those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
^(B)Will not pangs take hold of you
    like those of a woman in labor?
²²And if you say in your heart,
    ^(C)‘Why have these things come upon me?’
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that ^(D)your skirts are lifted up
    and you suffer violence.
²³^(E)Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or ^(F)the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
    who are accustomed to do evil.
²⁴I will scatter you^[a] ^(G)like chaff
    driven by the wind from the desert.
²⁵^(H)This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord,
because ^(I)you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.
²⁶^(J)I myself will lift up your skirts over your face,
    and your shame will be seen.
²⁷I have seen ^(K)your abominations,
    your adulteries and ^(L)neighings, your lewd whorings,
    ^(M)on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
    How long will it be ^(N)before you are made clean?”