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22 If you say in your heart,
    “Why have these things come on me?”
Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity,
    and your heels suffer violence.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
    or the leopard his spots?
Then may you also do good,
    who are accustomed to do evil.

24 “Therefore I will scatter them,
    as the stubble that passes away,
    by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is your lot,
    the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh,
“because you have forgotten me,
    and trusted in falsehood.”
26 Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face,
    and your shame will appear.
27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries,
    and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution,
    on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
    You will not be made clean.
    How long will it yet be?”

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22 And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the [a]greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are [b]accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, [c]by the wind of the wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 26 Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts [d]upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear. 27 I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:22 Or, multitude
  2. Jeremiah 13:23 Hebrew taught.
  3. Jeremiah 13:24 Or, unto
  4. Jeremiah 13:26 Or, before