21. What will you say when He appointsclose friends as leaders over you,ones you yourself trained?Won’t labor pains seize you, as they do a woman in labor?
22. And when you ask yourself,“Why have these things happened to me? ”It is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.
23. Can the Cushite change his skin,or a leopard his spots?If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.
24. I will scatter you like drifting chaff 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.
26. I will pull your skirts up over your faceso that your shame might be seen.
27. Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your heinous prostitutionon the hills, in the fields —I have seen your detestable acts.Woe to you, Jerusalem!You are unclean —for how long yet?