Jeremiah 13:22-25

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²² And if you say in your heart,
    ‘Why have these things come upon me?’
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that your skirts are lifted up,
    and you suffer violence.
²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
    who are accustomed to do evil.
²⁴ I will scatter you^[a] like chaff
    driven by the wind from the desert.
²⁵ This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord,
because you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.