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22 And if you say in your heart,
    ‘Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered;
    your heels have endured violence.
23 Can a Cushite change his skin,
    or a leopard his spots?
Then you also will be able to do good,
    who are accustomed to doing evil.
24 And I will scatter them
    like stubble scattered by the wind of the desert.[a]
25 This is your lot,
    the portion of your measure from me,” declares[b] Yahweh,
“because you have forgotten me,
    and you have trusted in the lie.
26 So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face,
    and your shame will become visible.
27 Your adulteries, and your neighings,
    the shameful behavior of your fornications
on the hills in the countryside,
    I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
    How long will you continue to be unclean?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:24 Or “wilderness”
  2. Jeremiah 13:25 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 13:27 Literally “Not you are clean after how long still”

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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