Jeremiah 13:23
Berean Standard Bible
Can the Ethiopian * change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.
Context
21What will you say when He sets over you
close allies whom you yourself trained?
Will not pangs of anguish grip you,
as they do a woman in labor? 22And if you ask yourself,
“Why has this happened to me?”
It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity
that your skirts have been stripped off
and your body has been exposed.* 23Can the Ethiopian * change his skin,
or the leopard his spots?
Neither are you able to do good—
you who are accustomed to doing evil. 24“I will scatter you like chaff
driven by the desert wind. 25This is your lot,
the portion I have measured to you,”
declares the LORD,
“because you have forgotten Me
and trusted in falsehood.
English text: Berean Standard Bible (BSB). English audio: Berean Standard Audio Bible.