22. You will probably ask yourself,‘Why have these things happened to me?Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteresswhose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’It is because you have sinned so much.
23. But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil.Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin?Can a leopard remove its spots?
24. “The Lord says, ‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaffthat is blown away by a desert wind.
25. This is your fate,the destiny to which I have appointed you,because you have forgotten meand have trusted in false gods.