Catholic Public Domain Version

Jeremiah 13:22-27 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

22. But if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things happened to me?' it is because of the greatness of your iniquity that your shame has been uncovered and the soles of your feet have been defiled.

23. If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.

24. And I will scatter them like chaff, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.

25. This is your lot, and this is the portion of your measure from me, says the Lord, because you have forgotten me, and you have had confidence in what is false.

26. Therefore, I have even bared your thighs before your face, and your shame has been seen.

27. For I have seen your adulteries, and your neighing for the wickedness of your fornication, and your abominations upon the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer before you will be made clean after me?"