²² And when you ask yourself,
“Why have these things happened to me?”
it is because of your great guilt^(A)
that your skirts have been stripped off,^(B)
your body exposed.^[a]
23 Can the Cushite change his skin,
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,^(C)
you who are instructed in evil.
²⁴ I will scatter you^[b] like drifting chaff^(D)
before the desert wind.