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.
²⁵ This is your lot,
what I have decreed for you—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
because you have forgotten Me
and trusted in Falsehood.^[c](E)
26 I will pull your skirts up over your face
so that your shame might be seen.^(F)
27 Your adulteries and your lustful neighing,^(G)
your heinous prostitution
on the hills, in the fields—
I have seen your detestable acts.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
You are unclean—
for how long yet?^(H)