²¹ What will you say when He appoints your so-called allies,
    the very ones you trained, to rule over you?
Will not the pain stab at you
    as it does a woman in childbirth?
²² When you begin to ask yourself, “Why is all this happening to me?”
    know this: it is because of the weight of your sins.
This is why your enemies will tear off your skirts and violate your bodies.
²³ And still, you will not change.
    Can the Ethiopian change his skin?
    Can a leopard change its spots?
It seems just as unlikely that you will change your ways and do good,
    when you are so used to doing evil—it has become such a part of you.